Quotes from Gregg Hurwitz

as long as he could remember, loneliness had been his companion.

If you find someone threatening, make him your own. It was like psychological cannibalism.

Travers shifted uneasily in her chair. "Sir, can't you give us more time on this? Marlow's a hell of a guy to unleash in this situation—it's like letting a fifteen-year-old loose in a whorehouse, if you'll pardon the metaphor." "It's a simile. And I want him.

After that, Thomas had told her, he felt that Allander drew his inspiration from some source beyond Thomas's comprehension.

The next forty-eight hours passed tediously and painfully, like a jagged kidney stone.

A taped recording of a psychiatric interview played, and Allander's voice resonated through the room.

I'm certain that your estimation of your mother and father was rather hyperbolic anyway. Parents are deified by their children, but as you can see, the idols in the temple have come tumbling down." He extended a foot and touched the woman's corpse.

Rosebush after rosebush fell before their marching feet, plowed down by the vanguard.

Then he removed a pick from his back pocket and, using a thick hairpin for a torsion bar, jiggled the dead bolt open. He whistled "Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho" as he worked.

He didn't lurch awake as many people do after a nightmare. Instead, his eyes opened and he waited silently for the world to flood back to him.

They weren't quite in their teens, yet their faces had the early trappings of apathy.

He has spent a lifetime in the vicinity of trauma, usually inflicting it. He is known by some as Evan Smoak. To a few, he is known as Orphan X.

Jade approached the group of boys slowly. There were five of them, four sitting with their shoulders angled toward the fifth, who stood with one foot in the bucket of a swing. If you check the body posture, you can always find the ringleader, he thought.

I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying it's worth doing. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

A few college students readjusted their backpacks over their shoulders as they left the building, and Jade's eyes followed two brunettes making their way across the lawn. Distracted for the moment, he almost walked into a tree, but was given a heads-up by a branch that knocked his sunglasses crooked. After putting them back in place, he glanced around to see if anyone had noticed.

The secretary was not an attractive woman, nor did she do much with what she had. She also looked nervous; her eyes darted about the room as though she were looking for a means of escape. Jade almost smiled as she struggled to respond to this unusual situation.

As some of our more uncouth agents are prone to say, we want to know how many times he wipes his ass when he shits.

The doctor had asked him about the source of his anger, and Allander had exploded in a fit of verbosity. "So, Doctor," Allander had replied, "if that is what we can call you—you're certainly not a healer, but that's a different tale, isn't it? You'd like to know the source of my anger? I can speak your tongue. See if you can keep up.

He was most comfortable with sheer physical collision. When it all came down to it, that, even more than his tactical expertise, was what had made Jade famous; it was what he did best.

He was a Tower of flesh and blood, rising above the emotional quagmire through which other men limped, thoughtless and impotent.

Delphinium scopulorum, better known as Rocky Mountain larkspur, wasn't just cardiotoxic; it had neuromuscular blocking effects, shutting down a body limb by limb until paralysis set in. Then death.

Jack had taught him this along with so much else. How to find peace. How to embody stillness. How to punch an eskrima dagger between the fourth and fifth ribs, angling up at the heart.

Thomas was in his usual spot near the fireplace. With his wrinkled clothes and weary demeanor, he looked like a recently fired executive in the middle of a drinking binge.

The neck-strained interaction between the floors served the Tower's design: to break the spirits of nearly indomitable men by removing from them all the trappings of civilization.