Quotes from Stuart Woods

A rabbi," Dino said, "is like a mentor. If a cop has a good enough rabbi, he's more likely to be kept out of trouble.

there. "The guard at the gate can confirm my story," he said.

Stone had thought about dying before , but never in such close proximity to the event. Would his whole life flash before his eyes ? Would it be less painful if he just relaxed and let it happen ? He discovered he could not give in to it ; he would go down fighting with what meager resources he had left.

He was a simple, animal hunger, and he didn't care what he was eating or how it tasted . It was like taking aspirin to make a headache go away. You don't enjoy the aspirin

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There was a sort of invisible, one-way barrier between that young woman and the rest of the world ; everything passed through it to her but very little passed out.

Or, perhaps, Hillary and Jack Coulter, since she was the one with all the money, and there was a great deal of it. He added a couple of paragraphs to the memo he was sending to the tax and finance department of his law firm, Woodman & Weld, where his suggestions would be reviewed to keep him out of trouble. His phone buzzed.

him, he barged into your office. I went after him with my .45." Joan kept the pistol in a desk drawer. "He was trying

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shoot you, or

Dino shook his head. "Wherever you go, people drop dead, and women take off their underwear. I don't know how you do either of those things.

I don't know what the world is coming to," she said sadly. "In my day select people—secret agents, hired guns, Girl Scouts who expected to sell their cookies without getting raped—were taught to kill with a single thumb." "Were you a Girl Scout?" Stone asked. "Of course. How do you think I know this stuff?

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