36 Quotes by R.J. Ellory

For some reason Eldorado now seemed analogous to something – something better, a change for the good, a little place of hope. Maybe nothing would be different. Maybe Eldorado would be just one more kind of disappointment, but it was a purpose and it was a goal and it was a destination. It was a reason to keep moving.

Confidence was simply saying something you believed in. Trouble was that those with impressionable minds took certainty and self-belief as truth.

Now I don’t’ know what trouble you got yourselves into, and I ain’t gonna ask, but whatever the hell it is I can tell you one thing for free. There’s never a trouble in life that’s solved by runnin’ away from it.

I think he killed someone already. Capital offense an’ all that.”Bailey tilted her head to one side. “That’s something that never made sense to me,” she said.“What?”“The death penalty. I mean, how does killing someone prove that killing people is wrong?

You have to try and believe that something good can happen any time at all, but you should never expect it too much. If you expect it, well, it won’t come. Like snow at Christmas.

Lonely is a state of mind, not a place

And the sound of her laughter made him feel somehow better, as if this ridiculous escapade had helped to jar loose the memories of the last few days. Tragedy was overcome by living life. Best way to deal with loss was to gain as much as possible every place else.

He wondered about a great many things, as was his nature, and – as always – there was scant understanding to be had of any of it.

Even the most irrational mind has a rationale.