10 Quotes by Jon Clinch

The orchestra concludes to a merry burst of applause and the orchestra slides into a waltz—a much-needed chance for the dancers to catch their breath, perhaps even an opportunity for the whispering of urgent secrets and tender promises...

Scrooge is no Marley, and Marley is no Scrooge, and their partnership is the better for it.

The situation is unendurable, and yet he endures.

You owe some things to the dead even if they're not your own dead. I guess in some way they're all your own.

I didn’t mean any harm.′ For who truly means harm in all this world.

Among all of the powers and principalities, there is none on earth so mighty as a man’s unsatisfied desire.

When he is done he feels not a burden removed from his shoulders and not an easing of his load but a strange sagging sense of disappointment, as if... he has deflated something whose power might have raised him up.

You owe some things to the dead even if they’re not your own dead. I guess in some way they’re all your own.

He is between worlds, this boy. Between the river and the town, between the hogshead and the house, between the taint of his mother and the stain of his pap. He knows some things that he can never say, not even to himself.