Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
And what’s your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. “Loving someone who loves me.
You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?” Harry nodded toward the Finn.
Harry doesn’t like people, you see.” “I do like people,” Harry said. “I just don’t like being with them. Particularly when there’s a lot of them at the same time.
Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more.
A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom
No one can leave someone they have good sex with. They can try, but they always go back. We’re simple souls like that, aren’t we?
Incidentally, I really agree with those who say that the capacity to forgive says something about the essential quality of a person. I’m the lowest grade.”I didn’t mean to criticize you.”I promise to be better in my next life…
…he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.
Wilhelm’s smile reminded Harry of his father’s sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because that’s where the things that made him smile were.
no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.
Smoking’s banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body,” he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer.
Hurt? He’ll never be hurt–he’s made to other people.
Just imagine walking away from something you’ve started. Something you really believed would be good. I don’t think i could ever do that.
Sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until you find it,” Harry answered. “It’s a methodology.
Are you dying?”Cato lit his cigarette. “It’s not acute, perhaps, but we’re all dying, Harry.
Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to dare to look at them long and hard until you know that is what they are. Ghosts. Lifeless, powerless ghosts.
. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other people — it just wouldn’t suit them.
Listen, I am someone who had chosen to earn their daily bread killing other people. I’m inclined to give people a bit of leeway when it comes to their actions and decisions.
You know someone’s okay if they can ignore things they can’t do anything about and move on.
Balance is of the essence,’ she said. ‘That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience.
What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.
in order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible