Henry Avila

“Books are doors that lead out into the street,” Patricia would tell her. “You learn from them, educate yourself, travel, dream, imagine, live other lives, multiply your own life a thousand times. Where can you get more for your money, Mexicanita? And they also keep all sorts of bad things at bay: ghosts, loneliness, shit like that.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Queen of the South

“For every life you take, you must save another or more. It does not matter if they are good or evil; who can really tell? There is good in everything, evil as well ….”
― Craig Halloran, The Hero, The Sword and The Dragons

“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

“When a man was alone too much, he had only himself to look into, and what he found there was all manner of darkness.”
― Howard Bahr, Pelican Road