Michael Nava citations

Michael Nava est un avocat américain et écrivain homosexuel de roman policier.

✵ 16. septembre 1954
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Michael Nava: Citations en anglais

“[Alex] "I never knew how many ways there were to fail until I moved here."”

Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.41 (Chapter 4) [page numbers as per the Alyson Publications Paperback Edition, April 2004]

“[Inez] "…If you consort with lowlifes you've got to expect complications."”

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Burning Plain (1997), p.91 (Chapter 8)

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

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

“[Alex] Big ideas don't pay the rent.”

Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.205 (Chapter 16)

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

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

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

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."”

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

“Many Americans share the feeling that our society has forgotten how to mind its own business.”

Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.141

“AIDS has had the effect of forcing gay men to examine their sexual expression.”

Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.55

“The fact is that most gay men and women lead, or try to lead, ordinary lives indistinguishable from those of their neighbours.”

Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.53

“He was so arrogant that he spoke of himself in the plural.”

Source: The Children of Eve' series of novels (historical fiction), The City of Palaces (2014), p.173

“He felt like Hercules at the Augean stables commissioned to clean out the accumulated filth of centuries.”

Source: The Children of Eve' series of novels (historical fiction), The City of Palaces (2014), p.86

“He was a great and impartial hater; anyone different from him became an object of his contempt.”

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Hidden Law (1992), p.1

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