Michael Nava: Place

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“[Henry, to Rod] "Hell's not a place, Rod, it's something people do to each other."”

Michael Nava

Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.304 (Chapter 23)

People , Hell

“[Henry] "…when you start running from yourself, you end up in some pretty dark places."”

Michael Nava

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Burning Plain (1997), p.282 (Chapter 21)

“[Donati] "You couldn't have planned a worse place to put a city than LA."”

Michael Nava

Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.225 (Chapter 18)

“The fighting had ended and his old routines had begun to be re-established ‑ even El Morito had reappeared, skinny and flea-ridden - but nothing was as it had been. He was like someone who had stepped into a long, dark, and frightening tunnel and, coming into the light, could not blink away the darkness that continued to cloud the periphery of his vision. The world was a more arbitrary and crueler place, and even though his family surrounded him, he knew now that he was essentially alone in it.”

Michael Nava

Source: The Children of Eve' series of novels (historical fiction), The City of Palaces (2014), p.323

World , Family , Fight , Light

“It really was a brutal place, Los Angeles, less a city than a collection of hostile villages united only in their mutual suspicion of each other and a susceptibility to disasters, natural and otherwise. Fires, floods, riots and earthquakes; it was looking more and more like Armageddon-by-the-Pacific.”

Michael Nava

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Death of Friends (1996), p.81

Angels , Hostility , Nature