47 Quotes by John Hart

She wore peacefulness as if it were a blanket she’d decided to wrap around her shoulders.

She kept her eyes on Channing when she could; saw the wounded blankness of all who are ruined young.

for a fallen soul, an act of wrong could, at time, feel very right, and that scared the hell out of me.

I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.

I left, heavy with the words she refused to let me say.

The fall could have taken her all the way down, so deep she would not have come back the same or even close. He was going to pound her into the dark and leave her there.…

For a year, Johnny lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own.But that's the way it was. What had been concrete one day proved sand the next; strength was illusion; faith meant shit. So what? So his once-bright world had devolved to cold, wet fog. That was life, the new order. Johnny had nothing to trust but himself, so that's the way he rolled - his path, his choices, and no looking back.

It was a paradox of life behind walls, that where any day could end in blood, every morning contrived to start exactly the same. A man woke and, for two beats of his heart, didn’t know where he was or what he’d become. Those few seconds were magic, a warm flicker before reality walked across his chest, the black dog of remembrance trailing at its feet.