Luna > Luna's Quotes

“We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“It's terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches off into a new world.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“No one tells you it's all about to change, to be taken away. There's no proximity alert, no indication that you're standing on the precipice. And maybe that's what makes tragedy so tragic. Not just what happens, but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes at you out of nowhere, when you're least expecting it. No time to flinch or brace.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you…. And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. MARK TWAIN”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“All your life you’re told you’re unique. An individual. That no one on the planet is just like you. It’s humanity’s anthem. But that isn’t true for me anymore.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“the truth is never horrible, only interesting.”
― Agatha Christie, Black Coffee

“Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care.”
― Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library

“No, I wouldn't. I wouldn’t tell a soul.'

'People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it.”
― Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library

“Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea când o primesc!”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“No one gets away with committting murder on the premises."
"No exceptions?" she asked.
His smile was as cold as his eyes. "One exception."
"You," she said.
"Me."
She took a short, tight breath.
"But you didn't kill Gloria Maitland," she said.
"What makes you so sure I didn't murder her?"
"You're a magician. You would have done a better job of it.”
― Amanda Quick, The Girl Who Knew Too Much

“There is no client as scary as an innocent man."

J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.”
― Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer

“I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.”
― Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer

“You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain, no middle ground. There's only one verdict. You have to put an NG up on the scoreboard. There's no other verdict but not guilty."

Levin nodded thoughtfully.

"The bottom line was my old man was a damn good lawyer and he didn't like having innocent clients," I said. "I'm not sure I do, either.”
― Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer

“The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation.”
― Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Deduce is absurd and dangerous”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“Hope is a cancer. One of two things happens. Either you never learn the truth, in which case it gnaws down to the bone until there’s nothing left, or worse, you do, and you go through that windshield at ninety because hope told you it was okay to make the drive without a seat belt.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop

“There was an old joke—it’s not the fall that kills you but the abrupt stop.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop

“It’s at the edge where the truth lies. It’s like hair. Everyone brushes their hair so it looks good from straight on. Why? Because that’s how we see it in the mirror. Straight on. We only ever see ourselves straight on, so that’s the only angle we worry about.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop

“Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on.”
― Sarah Jio, The Violets of March

“The city loves you when you're flying high and kicks you when you're down.”
― Sarah Jio, The Violets of March