Cagney Jordan > Cagney's Quotes

“They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“We learn from tragedy. Slowly.”
― Josephine Hart

“That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“Was my sin basically one of untruthfulness? Or, more likely, one of cowardice? But the liar knows the truth. The coward knows his fear and runs away.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“I say, you do have a heart!"

"Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea