Trevor > Trevor's Quotes

“Everyone sees different things.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he's trying to tell you, you just might reach him. (87)”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn’t the least understandable thing you can do.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“Left-wing lesbians are perfectly natural,” Giorgio says, “but there’s something about a right-wing lesbian that’s, I don’t know…almost North American. Sort of Fox News–ish.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“You don't have a partner, Marshal, You came here alone.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“He used it on the next guard, the one in front of the fence. He disarmed him, a kid, a baby, really, and the guard said, 'You going to kill me?'
'Jesus, kid, no,' Teddy said and snapped the butt of the rifle into the kid's temple.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“You was in all sorts of places, huh?” “Yeah, I was. Saw the world.” “What’d you think of it?” “Different languages, same shit.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“You were having nightmares, Marshal. Serious nightmares.” “I’m in a mental institution on an island in a hurricane,” Teddy said. “Touché,” Cawley said.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.”
― John Grisham, The Racketeer

“Maybe money can’t buy happiness, but it can rent it for a long time.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“How do you survive for years in prison? You don’t think about years, or months, or weeks. You think about today—how to get through it, how to survive it. When you wake up tomorrow, another day is behind you. The days add up; the weeks run together; the months become years. You realize how tough you are, how you can function and survive because you have no choice.”
― John Grisham, The Racketeer

“In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.”
― John Grisham, The Racketeer

“When I left home, Bo was six years old. He was our only child, but we were planning more. The math is easy, and I’ve done it a million times. He’ll be sixteen when I get out, a fully grown teenager, and I will have missed ten of the most precious years a father and son can have. Until they are about twelve years old, little boys worship their fathers and believe they can do no wrong. I coached Bo in T-ball and youth soccer, and he followed me around like a puppy. We fished and camped, and he sometimes went to my office with me on Saturday mornings, after a boys-only breakfast. He was my world, and trying to explain to him that I was going away for a long time broke both our hearts. Once behind bars, I refused to allow him to visit me. As much as I wanted to squeeze him, I could not stand the thought of that little boy seeing his father incarcerated.”
― John Grisham, The Racketeer

“It’s the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“I could live here,” Del said. “No, you couldn’t. You’d turn into a coot and hang out at the general store, with your fly down,” Lucas said. “You’d be known for goosing middle-aged women. You’d be the town embarrassment.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“We cannot live without memories, but we cannot live within them either.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Dead by her hand. All dead. The price of her freedom? Chung-Cha’s soul.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Smart, dedicated people lost their lives all the time as they trained to be the best they could be to serve their country. Celebrities broke a nail and they immediately took to Twitter, alerting their millions of followers to the “injury,” which in turn elicited thousands of replies from people with apparently not enough going on in their lives. And all the while brave men and women died in silence, forgotten by all except their families.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“I was guilty all right. Guilty of stupidity for allowing myself to fall into such a mess.”
― John Grisham, The Racketeer

“They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Some people, it’s like they care more about their status updates than their actual lives.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“And then it happens, the most dreaded response in the world, more terse than any word, more withholding than a "no," and strictly verboten for someone as in love with language and me as you claim to be.

You: "K”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Eye contact is what keeps us civilized.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“There’s emptiness in him that can never be filled, emptiness that dresses up well at prep school, where a lack of willpower is called creativity.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“This is Tío’s genius—he knows that a man who would never have the weakness to set a great evil into motion doesn’t have the strength to stop it once it’s moving. That the hardest thing in the world isn’t to refrain from committing an evil, it’s to stand up and stop one.”
― Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog

“Deliver my soul from the sword. My love from the power of the dog.”
― Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“It’s the Law of Unintended Consequences, Art thinks as he watches the federales. Operation Condor was intended to cut the Sinaloan cancer out of Mexico, but what it did instead was spread it through the entire body. And you have to give the Sinaloans credit—their response to their little diaspora was pure genius. Somewhere along the line they figured out that their real product isn’t drugs, it’s the two-thousand-mile border they share with the United States, and their ability to move contraband across it. Land can be burned, crops can be poisoned, people can be displaced, but that border—that border isn’t going anywhere. A product that might be worth a few cents one inch on their side of the border is worth thousands just one inch on the other side.”
― Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog