Quotes from John Sandford

She had some hope, now. First chance

Hostas were the hot fudge sundaes of the deer world.

He realized he was having a hard time recognizing that Marcy was gone, and there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it, and that killing Fell would not answer the problem he was having with her death, would not bring her back, and could have devastating consequences for himself and his family. The little man at the back of his mind could whisper all of that to him: and yet, that realization had little effect on the urge for revenge.

It's about time you got here, you hunk. He gave her a little squeeze an asked, Why don't you run away with me? Then you wouldn't have a job and I'd have to support you. Weather said. Then he'd be dead and you wouldn't have to support him, Davenport said. Still, couple good days at a Motel 6 in Mankato . . . might be worth it, Virgil said to her. Davenport said, Yeah it would be. When you're right, you're right.

Virgil was getting the impression that the group lacked cohesiveness.

murdered, and that a

but you ask anybody who's been to jail, and they'll tell you—a little is way, way better than a lot. Way better.

to somebody. It's hard to believe he'd get a break

O'Dell led the way back: he was an actor, Lucas realized, rolling slowly down the restaurant like a German tank, nodding into some booths, pointedly ignoring others, the rolled copy of the Wall Street Journal whacking his leg.

Yeah," Smalls said. "That's the guy.

After a fast lunch, Lucas, Letty, and Skye went over to Swede Hollow Park to look for other travelers. They found three, sitting together, passing a joint, and Skye told them about Henry—one of the three knew him—and asked about Pilate. None of them knew him, or had heard about him.

bureaucrat said. "Come back with a search warrant

out the window onto the freeway, where it was run over several hundred times in the next hour or so, before

AFTER THE CALL from Weather, Lucas showered and shaved, put a Band-Aid and some antiseptic on his index finger, above the knuckle, where he'd picked up a splinter earlier in the day, and put on some fresh clothes. He took ten minutes to vacuum up an accumulation of Asian ladybugs that had found their way through the windowless addition, and bagged up the garbage and trash. He called Jimi to tell her he'd be gone for a short time, no more than a few days.

Shay heard the yellow tennis balls on the walker's front legs swishing.

comment. "Are you sure you've got the

THE MEGACHURCH HAD PARKING for perhaps a thousand cars, and on this Sunday morning, there were probably twelve hundred jammed into the lot. Lucas walked into the entry and saw Smalls standing at a rostrum at the front of the church.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

you'll get back to your trucks. Some of those people, you

up by three metal desks, each with a computer

A hand wouldn't be such a big problem—a pregnancy would be," Del said. "But Elmer's not that dumb." "His penis might be," Del's wife said. "He has a well-schooled cock, he only impregnates what he wants to impregnate," Del said.

emotional state, or need for respite?

If you ever get in a situation where you need to shoot somebody, point the gun and keep pulling the trigger until it stops shooting. Forget about rules or excessive violence or any of that. Just keep pulling.

If I get my gun and you pat me on the ass. I'll shoot you." Letty said. (Page 12)