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."”

Michael Nava

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."”

Michael Nava

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?”

Michael Nava

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

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

Michael Nava

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."”

Michael Nava

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

“[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)

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

Michael Nava

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.”

Michael Nava

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.”

Michael Nava

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.”

Michael Nava

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.”

Michael Nava

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.”

Michael Nava

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

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