“You cannot follow another's footsteps to the truth," Silette wrote. "A hand can point the way. But the hand is not the teaching. The finger that points the way is not the way. The mystery is a payless land, and each detective must cut her own trail through a cruel territory.
"Believe nothing. Question everything. Follow only the clues.”
― Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
"Believe nothing. Question everything. Follow only the clues.”
― Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
“We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be.
But it doesn't last, and our true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.”
― Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway
But it doesn't last, and our true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.”
― Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway
“What bothered me most, though, was that I couldn’t fix anything. I couldn’t control anything. It was like driving a bumper car without a steering wheel. I kept getting slammed, and I just had to sit there and hold on tight.”
― Crenshaw
― Crenshaw
“And right then I knew, the way you know that it’s going to rain long before the first drop splatters on your nose, that something was about to change.”
― Crenshaw
― Crenshaw
“No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.”
― The Speed of Dark
― The Speed of Dark
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