Quotes from Don Winslow

And the tuberculosis old men At the Nelson wheeze and cough And someone will head south Until this whole thing cools off … —Tom Waits, "Small Change

Before we pitch our tent on the grassy knoll," Lou says, "let's consider the possibility that this wasn't an inside job.

Crime 101: Laws are made to be broken, with rules that are made to be followed.

He wishes Marie were here, that's all. No one who hasn't missed a beloved spouse will ever know the literal meaning of the word "heartache

he wanted to be best man. "That's old-school shit," Malone said. "That was our parents, our grandparents, it don't necessarily work that way anymore.

The only thing that could improve golf is snipers. Then those guys wouldn't wear those stupid clothes, and it would sure as shit speed up the game.

Por esas razones —dice Bernie—, me opongo al pacto que has hecho con Vecchio y te insto encarecidamente a que reflexiones. Danny Ryan, tú eres un hombre sensato. —Solo será esta vez —dice Danny. —El alma no se alquila. Solo se vende.

Fish that don't open their mouths don't get caught.

We rule over gangs—Crips and Bloods and Trinitarios and Latin Lords. Dominicans Don't Play, Broad Day Shooters, Gun Clappin' Goonies, Goons on Deck (seems to be a theme), From Da Zoo, Money Stackin' High, Mac Baller Brims. Folk Nation, Insane Gangster Crips, Addicted to Cash, Hot Boys, Get Money Boys.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would run outside with forks.

And I don't know how to tell you. I can't do this anymore. Go from one life to another, and this life, this life, feels . . . Stupid. Phony. This is not who I am.

It gets in your blood, like you got salt water running through you. The fishermen Danny knows love the sea and hate it, say it's like a cruel woman who hurts you over and over again but you keep going back to her anyway.

Over my forty-year career as a defense attorney, I regularly came into contact with people who lied, cheated, and tried to bend the system so that they would come out on top. Most of them worked for the government. —OSCAR GOODMAN, BEING OSCAR

He embarrassed the family," Jacky said at his sentencing hearing. "So you killed your own brother," the judge said. "Half brother," Jacky said. "What, maybe I should have only half killed him?" The judge maxed him out.

Even then Jacky had a chance to save himself. The feds offered him the complete package—immunity, the program, the whole nine yards—to go rat on Pasco Ferri, but Jacky told them they could line up and suck his dick. So now a series of punks perform that service for him as he resides in the North Wing of the old stone house, plays cards, and cooks pasta for the guys on Sundays.

You can't invite wolves to dinner and not expect them to eat.

People don't usually go off decapitating each other or committing mass murder just because they hate people in another group. These things happen because soul-dead political leaders are in a struggle for power and use ethnic violence as a tool in that struggle. —David Brooks

There's so many little peninsulas and tidal marshes along the shore, Danny thinks, you got to drive inland, then along the coast, then back toward the sea to get to any particular place. Quicker if they drained the marshes and built some roads, but that's Connecticut, not Rhode Island. Rhode Island likes things difficult, hard to find. The other unofficial state motto—"If you were supposed to know, you'd know.

What we lack in subtlety, we make up for with a lack of subtlety.

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No one knows how the chimp got the revolver.

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Everything I like will kill me

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