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****Read book first to avoid spoilers ... quotes are for recollection of the stories in the future**** “I don’t need to be protected. I want to be trusted.” === You’re a mother, too. And a troubled man’s wife. === I was all ready for…
“I serve the community, not one household, no matter how much they give back to it. The worst deadbeat in town is entitled to the same amount of protection as the pastor at St. Matthew’s.” === Give me a doohickey, any sort of doohickey.…
Instinctively he knows my central weakness: inability to avoid filling an awkward silence with jabber. === “The key, Boston Blackie. You’ve broken into your last crime scene.” === So I told him about the balloon payment. “Is that all?”…
“People have your kind all wrong. Techno-nerds aren’t supposed to be men of action.” “They’re not. Women are…” === The trek across the northwestern corner of Montana—through the rural stretches, anyway—blurs together into a collage of…
This was about money, and money beats sex every time. === “I’m not even sure there’s room for us to wear pajamas.” === Regina, or ‘Pile O’ Bones,’ as it was called back then, from debris left over from the skinning and butchering. I don’t…
Worried? I wished I were only that. I don’t know a word for the chilled feeling I got. It was like the feeling in a nightmare, when your car flies over a hill and there’s nothing on the other side. === I learned that people are anything…
She wears a yellow wig that looks like it would survive a nuclear attack and makeup half an inch thick. === Thurston makes a point of staring directly at Janie’s chest. “Evening, girls,” he says and waggles his fingers. Janie Jones…
Thurston looks at Miller’s hand like it’s been dipped in manure. “I wouldn’t touch your hand if you were pulling me out of the wreckage of a burning plane… “ === Cody Thurston has always found when his adrenaline spikes, events around him…
He feels the cold black thing in his heart compress further until it becomes a diamond of undiluted hatred. === It doesn’t matter how clever he is, how adept, how cunning; all it takes is one of Miller’s numbskulls to get lucky—to find a…
East Talbot’s got a bar, a diner, a farm supply store with a sideline in maple syrup products, and a gallery some hopeful hipster had opened five years ago selling tourist shit for tourists who never buy enough. === A thick blanket of…
Outside it’s colder than a hockey puck’s belly. === “Yesh’te der’mo derevenschina,” says a smiling Delamenko to the cowboy as he drives through the gate. Eat shit, redneck. === “Says here the Chenoo is a human whose heart’s been turned…
First create fear. Isn’t that what some Chink warlord said? === ….like a grizzly with its tail on fire. === “…You stay here until I come back. I’m going to get you out of here.” As he leaves the dungeon Thurston looks back. None of the…