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Michael Nava Quotes

born 1954 United States

Michael Nava (born 16 September 1954) is an American attorney and writer.

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[Henry] "Maybe she hasn't learned yet that good people can make terrible mistakes and still be good people."

Rag and Bone (2001)

The isolation that was so much a part of the city's psyche, the feeling that its ten million people were all living parallel lives that never intersected

Rag and Bone (2001)

After talking to Mark, I'd spent much of the night in the kind of "what if" ruminations that served no particular purpose except to depress me.

How Town (1990)

He laughed, but then in a serious voice said, "I have my slips. You gotta know that about me."
"Anyone who has standards has slips, John. Only good people worry about being good."

Rag and Bone (2001)

[Josh Mandel] "Most things people care about are silly. They don't think about the ones that matter."

The Death of Friends (1996)

[Henry, to Vicky] "I know you think homosexuality is a sin, but that's because you've been taught by ignorant people."

Rag and Bone (2001)

[Zack Bowen] "Damn, it's tough being a fag. People hate you who don't even know you, and the ones who know you, they're worse."

The Death of Friends (1996)

[Alicia] "What is false does not become true simply because people shout it. What is right does not change because it is inconvenient."

The City of Palaces (2014)

It was sometimes easier to read the future from the entrails of a cat than get a fix on what a judge was thinking, and Torres-Jones was particularly hard to get a handle on.

The Death of Friends (1996)

"You want me to stipulate that the cops violated her constitutional rights?"
"This is the LAPD we're talking about, Kim. It would be shocking if they hadn't violated her rights."

Rag and Bone (2001)

[Edith] "If you tell a child he's bad long enough and often enough, he will act it out."

The Hidden Law (1992)

After he left, the three of us sat on a bench worn to the wood by all the fidgeting bottoms that had occupied it before us.

Rag and Bone (2001)

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

The Burning Plain (1997)

[Elena] "Raising a kid is the ultimate exercise in trial and error."

Rag and Bone (2001)

[Madero] "An eye for an eye ends in blindness."

The City of Palaces (2014)

What is happening in contemporary American society is that people who prefer to be with members of their own sex no longer see this as a reason to be deprived of the rights to citizenship, family formation, and privacy.

Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994)

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

The Burning Plain (1997)

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

The Burning Plain (1997)

[His father, to Miguel] "I know that a man's honour means nothing to your generation, but it is all that a man possesses in this life."

The City of Palaces (2014)

You're in a world of hate.

Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Nava (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.