“Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.”
“I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.”
“The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.”
“I learned a long time ago that you have to experience something for yourself or you never really comprehend it.”
“...but I’d learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.”
“He knew what he'd see; one more slack face, one more pair of eyes that had barely learned to read, one more soul that had stared into itself too long.”