Quotes from Don Winslow

You have any questions, come to me, but don't have any questions. Are there any questions?

Later, when Marie was so sick and they both knew that their sunsets together were numbered, he would bundle her up in a coat and a blanket, a knit cap for her bare head, make her a cup of hot tea because she was always cold, and they would sit and watch the sunset, knowing it was their own as well. Now he sits and watches alone, although he still pours a glass of red wine for her, which he tosses over the deck into the bushes when he's ready to go inside. It's

Satán solo puede tentarte con lo que ya tienes.

The first time he saw the child, she was in a cage. The last time he saw her, she was free.

Everything is political," O'Brien says. "Especially these days.

Ser invencible depende de uno mismo. Ser vulnerable, del enemigo"».

The fan wheezes in its losing battle against the heat. But it's trying, Art thinks. It's fighting the good fight.

The guys of Savino's generation liked what they saw in the movies and wanted to be that. So Lou ain't trying to be Lefty Ruggiero, he's trying to be Al Pacino being Lefty Ruggiero. He ain't trying to be Tommy DeSimone, he's going for Joe Pesci being Tommy DeSimone, not being Jake Amari but James Gandolfini.

We can say that the roots of the heroin epidemic are in Mexican soil, but opiates are always a response to pain. What is the pain in the heart of American society that sends us searching for a drug to lessen it, to dampen it?

it isn't so much what you can dish out as what you can take.

Then know," Caro said, "that you have to accept both sides of this thing. Enjoy the rewards, accept the losses, do the terrible things you sometimes have to do. Never shed blood you don't have to, but when you have to, harden your heart and do it.

Crime 101: Getting out one job too early puts you on the beach. Getting out one job too late puts you in a cell.

it. A junkie goes into the alley alone with the disease, it's the disease that walks out.

Professor Asshole would never hold a door open, considering it a condescending, paternalistic passive-aggressive gesture perpetuating the male power structure.

La Dama de la Justicia lleva los ojos vendados porque no puede soportar ver lo que ocurre.

Nasty Ass got his street name because he always smells like he has a round in the chamber. If

The nuns used to say that the devil comes disguised as an angel. That the worst things you'll do, you'll do for the best reasons. The most hateful things you'll do, you'll do for the ones you love most.

mirrors reveal so little

This is a one-time thing," Danny says. "Your soul is never a rental," Bernie says. "It's always a sale.

There comes a time in a man's life, he figured, the infamous midlife crisis, when a guy has to face the reality that what he has is all he's going to get, and he needs to find his peace and his happiness in his life as it is.

Old men, he thinks, take their fading pleasures where they can.

He feels ashamed, wretched, coming to the realization that when push comes to shove, when the terrible reality is at hand, he really would have them do it to someone else rather than himself

Los gilipollas de la Asociación Nacional del Rifle te dirán que «no matan las armas, sino las personas». Sí, piensa Malone, las personas que van armadas. (...) Ellos esgrimen la Segunda Enmienda y los derechos individuales, pero es una cuestión de dinero. Los fabricantes de armas, que suponen el grueso de la financiación de la ANR, quieren vender armas y ganar pasta. Fin de la puta historia.

The only thing that could improve golf is snipers.