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Monday, August 25, 2008 - 12:15 AM
Silent Witness
lies.
nobody could ever REALLY tell if you're lying, except you.
Richard North Patterson's 'SILENT WITNESS' is a story about Tony Lord and how he managed to go on with his life, with practically all of the people in his hometown thinking that he was the murderer of Alison Taylor, the girl he loved.
Of course, he's the only one who KNOWS he's innocent, since the police were not able to find other suspects, plus the fact that Tony was the first person seen near Alison's corpse. The people who cared could only assume that Tony was innocent.
27 years after Alison Taylor's death, Tony comes back to his hometown to defend Sam Robb, his best friend/rival against a charge of homicide, which is cunningly similar to his case before. Lord will discover things too disturbing to ignore, like the eerie fact that the past has a way of repeating itself... even in murder.
The book ain't new, in fact it was published round October 1997, but this is the last book I've read, and the first book I've read that includes a courtroom drama. Lemme tell you one thing: nice!
This book got me reading all day, tas nilalamig pa kamay ko because of the intensity of the scenes (i don't even know if i used the correct words there... what the heck).
"...Once you start lying to someone you love, it's like you're alone, watching them through a window you put there yourself..."
When all the world looks at you with judging eyes, when everybody hates you for something you didn't do, you'll realize that you're the only one that genuinely knows you're innocent. And when the people you care for belives in you, if they take you in when nobody else won't, you'll find that nothing else really matter. But that doesn't mean you can lie to them. If you do, that'll make you nothing else but a piece of filth, useless and disgusting.
till here.
"....as they say, tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our life."
ehjiboi got weird at 12:15 AM
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