Michael Nava: Quotes about life

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“[Henry] Life is a kind of exile and we all long to go home. Who said that?”

Michael Nava

Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.146 (Chapter 12)

Life , Home

“This is my life, I thought, these are the people among whom I have spent it, prostitutes, tattooed boys with dead eyes, and horny cops.”

Michael Nava

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, Rag and Bone (2001), p.153

Dead , People , Boy , Tattoo

“He had the open, cheerful, rather self-satisfied countenance of someone upon whom life had made very few demands.”

Michael Nava

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, Rag and Bone (2001), p.187

Self-confidence , Life

“All I knew about his life was that he had had the kind of childhood that turns people into psychological time bombs. How would I react when he started to go off? Did I have my own time bomb ticking away in me?”

Michael Nava

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, Rag and Bone (2001), p.174

Childhood , Life , Time , People