Quotes from Don Winslow

If that's all that troubles you, here, take my veil, wrap it round your head and hold your tongue. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

Mexico, the land of pyramids and palaces, deserts and jungles, mountains and beaches, markets and gardens, boulevards and cobblestoned streets, broad plazas and hidden courtyards, is now known as a slaughter ground. And for what? So North Americans can get high.

Luis hopes for heaven. Keller fears hell. Vera fears only death, and that because he takes such pleasure in life.

They say that love conquers all. They're wrong, Keller thinks. Hate conquers all. It even conquers hate.

Brian is obese, like round, like the Pillsbury doughboy on a Twinkie binge.

You set someone straight, you have to go on the crooked road yourself. Sometimes you get lost.

Shakespeare: "The evil that men do lives after them.

father" and "mother" are verbs before they're nouns.

At least, at last, tell yourself the truth. You know exactly how you got here. Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.

Conquistaron el fuerte, utilizando morteros y cargas explosivas de gran potencia, mataron a sesenta soldados y capturaron al resto. Las FARC cortaron la principal autopista que comunica los distritos del sudoeste con el resto del país.

Satori," ripeté Xue Xin. "Se i nostri pensieri ci imprigionano, è ragionevole che possano anche liberarci.

But the past is a dogged pursuer, a pack of wolves relentlessly running you down. Maybe it's better to turn and face it.

It's dark, like all bars should be.

Malone no es un gran admirador de Dios, e imagina que el sentimiento es mutuo. Le gustaría hacerle un montón de preguntas; pero, si alguna vez estuvieran en la misma habitación, Dios probablemente cerraría la boca, contrataría a un abogado y permitiría que fuera su hijo quien acabara en la silla eléctrica.

No se trata de que ahora definamos a los narcos como terroristas — reflexionaba Keller—, sino de que se ha producido una filtración psicológica de la guerra contra el terrorismo a la Guerra contra la Droga.

He recalls an old dicho— When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings.

Do you know what history is?" Peter asks. "History?" "Yeah." "I dunno," Frankie says, "it's things that happened." "No," Peter says, "it's what people say happened.

Do I have a concussion?" "I don't know," she says. "Is my nose broken?" "And you have a concussion," she says.

the only redemption for having a bad father is being a good one.

You go in there to be Irish, Danny thinks, as if you're not already, as if you can get away from it anywhere anyway.

Everyone says what they're supposed to, the usual clichés like "She's a fighter." Yeah, Danny thinks. There are two fighters in any fight, and one of them loses.

The mob guys know it. They know that you bribe a politician only once. After that, you blackmail him.

They shouldn't look out the window when they hear shit," Ron Minelli says. "But that was probably her whole life. She probably spent her whole day looking out the window.

If you let people believe that you're weak, sooner or later you're going to have to kill them.