Lou Berney Quotes

#1. Sometimes the near seemed far, far away and the faraway was right beneath your feet.

Lou Berney

#2. The sun dropped beneath the horizon and then detonated, torching the racks of clouds stacked up above the downtown skyline. Wyatt had forgotten how quickly, in the vast empty sky of the southern plains, the ordinary could turn so flamboyant.

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#3. Was memory like a river that slowed over time to a trickle? Or was it like a house with many rooms that became a house with fewer rooms and then finally just a single room you could never leave? Was that the worst fate in the world? It depended, Wyatt supposed, on what room you ended up in.

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#4. That's the problem with the world," he said. "You save it today, and tomorrow it's gone and gotten itself into trouble all over again. It's like a Kardashian.

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#5. The past had power. The past was a riptide. That's why, if you had a brain in your head, you didn't go in the water.

Lou Berney

#6. Sometimes the best lie was just the truth left to ripen on the branch too long.

Lou Berney