Quotes from Jonathon King

Sometimes nature cannot stand us. And Sometimes we cannot stand our own nature.

look everyone in the eye, prove that you're listening, really listening to what they say, and that you value them and the time they are spending to talk with you.

Robert Frost quote: "Tell other people's stories as if they happened to you, and tell your own as if they happened to other people.

But you know the old saying: If you got nothing to hide, why not talk?" "Shit," I said, shaking my head because she knew better and every cop worth a damn knew better. A lot of people went to jail for crimes they didn't commit because they talked when they should have shut up. The

People familiar with the working of courtrooms know that truth and justice are only in the eye of the beholder. The best lawyers know that their job is only to convince that beholder of their version.

There were probably two hundred souls aboard and no doubt a few coming to relocate in a warm climate where there were already too many people and too few resources to match their dreams. Yet they came.

Convincing someone to stay isolated in the middle of nowhere is mostly determined by whether that someone has an affinity for being alone. I discovered the ability in myself by crawling into books when I was young, disappearing into worlds I'd never seen, reading conversations between people I would never meet, absorbing life lessons through characters overcoming odds I would most likely never face.

Closure is bullshit. In the absence of some kind of biological memory wipe, there is no such thing. Personal loss is always with us. We learn to live with it; we don't make it go away.

recalled a quote I picked up somewhere: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.