Quotes from Josh Lanyon

Woody Allen had it right: "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering—and it's all over much too soon.

In our silence lies our safety.

We all have our methods for coping and they usually happen behind closed doors.

He was glad to have it that way. He didn't need Robert's power under him and harnessed, he wanted it inside, filling him, warming him, ending the winter that had haunted him for so long.

Rob looked to be in his mid-thirties. About his own age. A man at the peak of his abilities.

I was surprised he didn't just spit the nails into the wood like Popeye the Sailor Man.

No outsider can understand a relationship between two people.' Hell, sometimes even the people in the relationship couldn't understand it.

WTF was my problem?

People are smarter now. That's one thing we taught them. Don't trust anybody. Don't trust your government. Don't trust the media. Don't trust anybody over thirty.

He despised violence. He believed he was smarter than that, better than that. A civilized man. After seeing Martin Pink in the flesh again—he knew just how thin the veneer of civilization was.

A muscle moved in Tucker's jaw. He said, "You mean you want berating space. I breath better when you are close by.

Travel had taught me that the world was something to engage with, not take shelter from.

You're not sure because you're feeling pretty stiff and achy, and

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so." "I don't mind.

That's something I missed, lying in bed listening to the rain with someone I loved. That's something I missed, having someone I loved.

He wore a white raincoat, looking as suave as Shaft at a New Orleans funeral.

but one of the sayings he was fond of was Burke's "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

I never met a more obstinate son of a bitch than you, baby.

Mirror, mirror on the truck Where she went, who gives a fuck?

All cynics are disappointed idealists.

I don't want to get hurt again. That's true. A week ago we weren't on speaking terms. Now you think you love me. And I don't want to hurt you either. I'm not looking for a steady boyfriend right now.

His mouth curved. "Do you really know what catalexis is?" "Not a clue. I heard you mention it once. It stuck in my memory because it sounds like a cross between a Cadillac and a Lexus.

But you're not worried anymore?" "Only in the way everyone worries when you realize someone else's well-being is necessary to your own.

I can't deny I was relieved. Not that I really thought something had happened to him, but occasionally bad things do happen to people I know. So far not in Jessica Fletcher epidemic proportions, but let's just say that news of the mysterious death of an acquaintance will never take me by complete surprise.