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“All drunks, particularly those who grew up in alcoholic homes, have that same sense of angst and trepidation, one that has no explainable origins. The fear is not necessarily self-centered, either. It’s like watching someone point a revolver at his temple while he cocks and dry-fires the mechanism, over and over again, until the cylinder rotates a loaded chamber into firing position.”
― James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending

“It's a great burden, being one of the good guys.”
― James Lee Burke, The Neon Rain

“The wrong people always worry. The people who are the real problem never worry about anything.”
― James Lee Burke, Wayfaring Stranger

“Through the screen, he could smell the evening as though it were a living presence, the purple and yellow flowers in his yard and the dark green wetness of the fescue part of a song that was never supposed to die. Except he could feel things ending, coming apart at the center, and he didn’t know why.”
― James Lee Burke, Light of the World