Quotes from John Gilstrap

Run,Nathan,run. Run as if your life depended on it.

Battles are won when warriors make the decisions not to lose.

youth dies when you stop believing that you can affect the hand you're dealt at birth. The reality is, sometimes you just draw shitty cards, and no matter how much you plan, and no matter how hard you work to be good and to go to church and to think the right thoughts, there's nothing in the world you can do to get a reshuffle.

we reporters are not all that incentivized to determine whether the underlying facts behind the leaks are truth or fiction. The fact that an important person said it is itself newsworthy.

If you hear the explosion, you're okay. But

His dad had once told him that hope was the most valuable possession a man could own. When he'd first said it, Nathan hadn't known what he'd meant. Now it was clear. Hope was where tomorrow resided.

as the foot of the marble sink that was Jonathan's next destination. His sink. One of two.

father flipped the light

Venice had no memories of her father, a policeman killed in the line of duty before she was born, and it was a source of pain that she'd never truly overcome. For as long as she could remember, she'd always dreamed about what her father might have sounded like and smelled like. The picture on Mama's dresser gave her a face, but she'd never know the voice that went with it.

when he heard the voice, he knew for

to their names, but the car they're driving is registered

In military families, the trained protector was forever protecting someone else. On the home front, crisis control rested squarely on the shoulders of the spouses, everything from broken bones to broken hearts, leaking water heaters to car repair.

And all that lay ahead of them was the future.

Poor alcoholics were bums; rich alcoholics were eccentric.

You'd have made a helluva dancer, Big Guy,

family. Boomer deserves better than a bullet. I don't care what he did, he deserves better than that.

That would explain the pigs I saw flying over frozen Hell this morning,

Whatever his bullets touched instantly joined a parallel universe.

Whatever happened, happened in exactly one way, and the investigator's job was to sift through often-conflicting bits and pieces to construct the one true story.

Let this be a lesson," he said. "Life is too short and filled with disappointments to deny yourself the best." He took a sip of his own and savored it. "Tea bags are a sin." Gail laughed. She felt as if she'd stepped through the looking glass, tea party and all.

laughed. "Hey, if enough people say it, it has to be

COSTS "Riveting

Jonathan nodded and joined him in watching the lane stripes on the Beltway zoom past. They

Gail Bonneville's chair squeaked noisily as she leaned all the way back and stretched to relieve the kink that now owned space between her shoulder blades. With her feet up on her desk,