“Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications.”
Sue Grafton
V is for Vengeance
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly.”
Ali Shariati
“The theater of operation built itself in Tool’s mind.”
Paolo Bacigalupi
The Drowned Cities
“I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms employed by the Communists.”
Victor Kravchenko
“In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.”
John Biggins
The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War
“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”
George Eliot
Middlemarch