Rage Of Angels Quotes
"In the years since then, he had yet to learn compassion."
"He was in constant motion, shadowboxing with invisible opponents."
"He had once killed a man in the ring and he had never regretted it."
"The quarry, Michael Moretti, sat at the defendant’s table, a silent, handsome man in his early thirties."
"Jennifer Parker was a slender, dark-haired girl of twenty-four with a pale skin, an intelligent, mobile face, and green, thoughtful eyes."
"It’s an ordinary courtroom, Jennifer thought, plain—even ugly—but it’s the heart of freedom."
"The right to a trial by a jury of one’s peers was what lay at the heart of every free nation."
"I’m prosecuting a case now. Some of you may have read about it."
"By the time you get out of prison you’ll be too old to spend that money."
"You witnessed the defendant, Michael Moretti, cold-bloodedly shoot to death two men because they had withheld money from him?"
"I’m not a fortune teller," Jennifer heard Di Silva say modestly. "That’s what we have juries for, ladies and gentlemen."
"If citizens were ever denied the right to a trial by jury, then America would cease to exist as a free nation."
"The key to the case against Michael Moretti was Camillo Stela, and Di Silva’s star witness was heavily protected."
"The law library was where she felt most at home, lost in the musty smell of old legal volumes."
"A pross is a hooker, and down below is south of Forty-Second Street. Capish?"
"I’m afraid there’s really nothing I can do to help you unless you help me."
"They’re going to try him for murder, and go for the death penalty."
"I’ll talk to him if you want me to, but I won’t make any commitment."
"I thought you would have turned tail and run out of town by now."
"I didn’t want to return your phone calls. I was afraid to."
"It's not how you play the game, it's whether you win or not."
"You're pretty good, honey, but I've been at it a lot longer than you."
"Tell your client I said better luck next time."
"We're going to send her away empty-handed as a lesson to other people who might be tempted to try the same thing in the future."
"A person has to take responsibility for his or her own actions."
"If you slip on a piece of ice on the street, you can't blame big brother for it."
"And you shouldn't try to swindle five million dollars out of him."
"Connie Garrett won't be in this courtroom, but before this trial is over you will all have an opportunity to meet her and get to know her as I have gotten to know her."
"I listened as Mr. Maguire spoke so eloquently, and I want to tell you I was touched."
"Rich to do what? Go out and buy diamonds for the hands she doesn’t have?"
"If I were to offer any one of you five million dollars in cash right now, and all I wanted in exchange was to cut off both your arms and both your legs, I don’t think five million dollars would seem like very much money."
"The trial was no longer about a crippled girl. It was about trucks and braking distances and faulty brake drums."
"When this trial began I promised the jury that they would get to know Connie Garrett."
"The jury is asking whether they are legally permitted to award Connie Garrett more than the five million dollars her attorney is suing for."
"I’m asking you, ladies and gentlemen, to remember where you are, to remember that all of us are here to see that justice is done."
"It’s been such a long time since you held me in your arms, Adam. You wouldn’t have to tell me you love me, but would you—would you like to—hold me in your arms once more and make love to me?"
"If Jennifer Parker can make you happy, I want you to have her."
"I knew you’d go around the bend one day, Jennifer."
"Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like for you to forget you’re in a court of law."
"He’s a real beauty. He takes after his mother."
"It takes a man to make a woman feel female, Jennifer thought, to make her feel beautiful, to make her feel wanted."
"There's no such thing as an offer you can't refuse. That's only in books."
"I just wanted to make sure you got home all right."
"The truth was that there was a difference—a big difference."
"We believe in what the Bible says... If anyone betrays us, we get vengeance."
"Don't confuse me with other people. I know who I am."
"Do you judge the people who come to you for help? Do you turn people away from God because they've sinned?"
"He needed her as he had needed no other woman."
"What made Jennifer special was her intelligence, her independence."
"Rosa obeyed him; other women feared him; Jennifer challenged him."
"Jennifer felt no sacrifice in spending so much time with Joshua; he was great fun."
"She taught him to love good books and to enjoy music."
"Jennifer gave her son all the love that was stored in her."
"She was more than intelligent. She was smart."
"Jennifer and Joshua would have a movie binge."
"He was at the head of his class and an outstanding athlete, but he did not take himself seriously."
"If anything happened to him…She wondered whether other mothers loved their children as much as she loved her son."
"It was as though she were in a bell jar, shut off from the rest of them."
"She walked carefully, standing very straight, as though she were going down an eternal corridor wide enough for only one person."
"Jennifer started with the day he was born and relived all her memories of him."
"Joshua taking his first steps... Joshua saying car-car, and Mama, go play with your toys..."
"Sometimes Jennifer would hear a telephone ring in some distant recess of the house..."
"She would not allow anything to interrupt her being with her son."
"Jennifer had no sense of time, no idea how long she lay there."
"Jennifer realized that she had been trying to commit suicide without actually having the courage to do it."
"The pain was deep and agonizing, and she knew it was a pain that would be with her for as long as she lived."
"Adam said to Thomas Colfax, 'Would you identify yourself, please?'"
"Thomas Colfax spoke. His voice was steady and sure."
"Adam tried to reach Jennifer several times each day."
"Adam Warner looked around the room and forced himself to speak."
"Michael Moretti had been waiting for Jennifer's call."
"The ancient juices of vengeance stirred strongly within Michael Moretti."
"The meat was cooked perfectly, the potatoes were creamy and hot and the Yorkshire pudding was done to a turn."
"Jennifer realized that she had neglected to make a plane reservation for Stefan Bjork back to the States."
"Adam felt no fear, only an ineffable sadness at the loss, the waste."
"Michael Moretti glanced up at the clock on the wall."
"Michael watched the blood spurt out of her chest."
"I’m not optimistic. We removed three bullets from her."
"She’s in a coma. She may not come out of it."
"No one gets near that room without written authorization from me. You understand?"
"In repose, her face seemed younger and softer."
"He remembered her courage and idealism and her vulnerability."
"A feeling of blessed peace began to steal over her."
"I will not go to prison. I will not lose Kruger Brent. I will not lose my family. Think!"
"Grace Brookstein had the sweet, angelic features of a child."
"But she held on to her inner peace, to Lenny’s voice inside her head."
"The Brooksteins don’t believe that the rules of the Little People apply to them."
"Grace Brookstein stole because she was greedy."
"She still thinks she can get away with it. It’s up to you to prove her wrong."
"The jury looked as if they wanted to burst into spontaneous applause."
"The foreman looked directly at Grace Brookstein. And smiled."