The Sinner Quotes
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The Sinner Quotes
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“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“You don't have to die to go to hell.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“You know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?
The Sixth Sense.
Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell.”
― The Sinner
The Sixth Sense.
Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell.”
― The Sinner
“No man easily admits that he is afraid.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“If you don't love him, if you don't even care about him, then seeing him now shouldn't be all that painful. Should it?”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“We're all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation,just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“Life is a series of complications. We have to deal with each one as it comes.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“But human anatomy and human endurance are variable. While the much younger nun had succumbed to her injuries, Ursula's heart kept beating, her body unwilling to surrender its soul. Not a miracle, merely one of those quirks of fate, like the child who survives a fall from a sixth-floor window, and is only scratched.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“Maura moved quietly to the alcove. There she lit three candles for three women. One for Sister Ursula. One for Sister Camille. And one for a faceless leper whose name she would never know. She did not believe in heaven or hell; she was not even sure she believed in the eternal soul.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“Sometimes, thought Maura, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance—that’s all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“Sometimes, thought Maura, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance—that’s all it can really”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“Місце смерті має свою особливу силу. Таке місце зберігає пам’ять про те, що сталося, ще довго після того, як тіло виносять, а кров змивають. Воно затримує відгомін криків, береже запах страху. І, наче чорна діра, засмоктує у свій вир увагу живих, які не можуть відвернутися, не можуть опиратися погляду в пекло.”
― Грішна
― Грішна
“Then she walked out of his church, and back into her own world.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“what she did believe in was the power of remembrance. Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“was more than their family could ever eat, but that was the point; an abundance of both food and love.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“Maybe I don’t really know what love feels like. Because I’ve been too busy fighting it. Just as I fight everything else that might hurt me.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“Something as deeply personal as faith should not be subjected to another person’s contempt.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it’s always such a surprise.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“And let's be honest. Sometimes, Jane, you can be a real bitch. - Agent Gabriel Dean”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“There are far scarier things in this world than dead bodies.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“We’re all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it’s always such a surprise.”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner
“We’re all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it’s always such a surprise. The”
― The Sinner
― The Sinner