68 Quotes by William Landay

...No one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

A liberal, it turns out, is a conservative who's been indicted.

I have an idea that this is what enduring love really means. Your memories of a girl at seventeen become as real and vivid as the middle-aged woman sitting in front of you. It is a happy sort of double vision, this seeing and remembering. To be seen this way is to be known.

A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote.

The human element in any system is always prone to error. Why should the courts be any different? They are not. Our blind trust in the system is the product of ignorance....

Don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. The hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead

Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked at me - I think by now I had dropped the bat to my side, at least, though I must have looked ridiculous anyway - and he raised his eyebrows. 'Get back in the house, Babe Ruth.

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