66 Quotes by Matthew FitzSimmons

Hope is a cancer. One of two things happens. Either you never learn the truth, in which case it gnaws down to the bone until there's nothing left, or worse, you do, and you go through that windshield at ninety because hope told you it was okay to make the drive without a seat belt.

What do guys with big dicks say in the morning?” “Huh?” The question confused him. “What?” Lea nodded. “Yeah, I didn’t think you’d know.

She had no doubt that being black in the LAPD – an organization with a historically awful record of race relations – could embitter even the most resilient person.

Entitlement breeds laziness, which in turn breeds decline. But of course with enough money, it is possible not to notice for decades that your family name is gathering dust.

In the immortal words of Duke Vaughn, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, take a big bite and chew slow.

Vaughn’s morning began at five thirty with a five-mile run. Two hundred push-ups, two hundred sit-ups, followed by a shower. Afterward, he ate the same breakfast at the same diner at the same counter stool. Every damn morning, like it was his church.

What kind of selfish prick hangs himself where he’ll be found by his fifteen-year-old son? No note, nothing. It was unforgivable.

Measuring one’s life in terms of days was purposeless. He could still feel his heartbeat in his chest, still taste the breath from his lungs. He yet lived, and that was the only measure of time that truly mattered.

This was no one’s first choice.