Quotes from C.J. Box

Saeed didn't need to answer. Instead, he turned to the

two sharp brown eyes surveyed the room like drive-by shooters.

It's strange how often human beings die without any kind of style.

Then there was his dad. He wouldn't be as emotional or judgmental about the situation. After all, he'd saved all their lives. But his dad was at best unpredictable. When Cody Hoyt had his fuse lit, anything could happen. Justin wasn't sure he wanted to be the one holding the match.

He'd lowered

the three red lights in Saddlestring without seeing it.

Her hips were wide and they fit over the barstool like a hand gripping a tennis ball.

delineator posts nosed out just above the surface of the snow at the level of his pickup windows.

Then to her: "Don't get me wrong. I admire your guts coming here tonight. That shows me something. But I've got a question for you." "What?" "Who is going to protect these people now?" he asked. "You?" He said it with incredulity. She felt her face flush hot again, and she sipped the glass of wine for something to do.

There are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

rifle to shoot at you?

served as his lawyer pro bono.

the maxim he'd always lived by: "Take every possible opportunity you can to eat and take a shit, because this county is 3,500 square miles, a third of it roadless.

shot him in the butt from three feet away and Pendergast

Schweitzer had built the underground concrete bunker in the shape and dimensions of an unbalanced barbell.

any more about it?" Joe asked.

82nd Airborne Division paratroopers.

There were five commissioners.

large outhouse.

Thanks for keeping your eye on them. I appreciate it. But I wish you wouldn't do that with the ears. It's been a long time Nate said, I kinda missed it/

I don't know why it is that alcohol and tobacco are now bad, but jolts of caffeine are suddenly good. It is beyond me, and it makes me feel old.

Missy was quick to assign blame for her mistakes not to herself but to whoever caused her to lose control.

there were three kinds of thermal features in the world: geysers, mud pots, and fumaroles (steam vents), and Yellowstone featured them all.

They spend money like a pimp with a week to live.