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| ffbb27e | MARLYS WAS A WOMAN of ordinary appearance, if seen in a supermarket or a library, dressed in homemade or Walmart dresses or slacks, a little too heavy, but fighting it, white-haired, ruddy-faced. In her heart, though, she housed a rage that knew no bounds. The rage fully possessed her at times, and she might be seen sitting in her truck at a stoplight, pounding the steering wheel with the palms of her hands, or walking through the noodle ai.. | John Sandford | ||
| 7b08807 | The local farmers, of course, were bitching because the bean and corn harvests were going to be huge and the prices depressed. Of course, if it hadn't rained, they'd be bitching because their crops were small, even if the prices were high. You couldn't win with farmers. | John Sandford | ||
| aeb585e | GRAY-EYED COLE SAT in his bedroom window, looking out over the road, a scoped Ruger 10/22 in his hands. Squirrel rifle. Below him, a quilt hung on the wire clothesline, airing out. Before the end of the day, the quilt would smell like early-summer fields, with a little gravel dust mixed in. A wonderful smell, a smell like home. | John Sandford | ||
| 9c94ede | I understand. Does he have names?" "No. All he has is some basic descriptions. He said the candidate from the North saw you and a fellow he believed was related to you, and passed along the description. If he starts asking around among our people, he's going to find you. I won't ask if . . . you know . . . you're planning something. I'm already in enough trouble, lying about not knowing you." "I appreciate that," Marlys said." -- | John Sandford | ||
| 7958415 | They were the rumors that might follow any rich man who stayed to himself, Virgil thought, and who at the same time was thoroughly hated. | John Sandford | ||
| f0396ce | SCHIFFER WAS LEAVING, Dannon asked Carver to do a serious look around the yard. One of the radar buzzers had been going off, Dannon said, and he hadn't been able to isolate why. "Probably another goddamn skunk," Carver said. He pulled his jacket back on and went to look." | John Sandford | ||
| e423ba0 | As Bowden worked the room, Jubek took Lucas around to all the other security people and told them to take a good look. "If this guy tells you something, you listen," he told them. He gave Lucas his cell phone number, and said, as Lucas was leaving, "I sincerely hope you're a self-aggrandizing bullshitter who's trying to get attention for himself, but I looked you up and I've got the bad feeling you're not." "'Self-aggrandizing.' Pretty big .. | John Sandford | ||
| 10f89c6 | Marlys was a sturdy woman in her fifties, white curls clinging to her scalp like vanilla frosting. She wore rimless glasses, a homemade red-checked gingham dress, and low-topped Nikes. Short-nosed and pale, she had a small pink mouth that habitually pursed in thought, or disapproval. | John Sandford | ||
| bef446a | THEY WALKED UP TO the front door, rang the bell. Del scratched his neck and looked at the yellow bug light and said, "I feel like a bug." "You look like a bug. You fall down out there?" "About four times. We weren't running so much as staggering around. Potholes full of water . . . I see you kept your French shoes nice and dry." "English. English shoes . . . French shirts. Italian suits. Try to remember that." "Makes my nose bleed," Del sai.. | John Sandford | ||
| e7193e6 | THE EXCHANGE KEPT LUCAS warm all the way out to the car. He'd jump off a high building before he betrayed Weather, but a little extracurricular flirtation kept the blood circulating; not that all of it went to the brain. | John Sandford | ||
| eea24b8 | You know, I believe every word you've said, but I don't need this. I've got six officers working for me full-time, plus four reserve deputies and a dog, and the dog got his feet cut up on broken glass yesterday and he's out of it for a week. That means two guys for busy shifts, one guy for others. The dog has the most experience. Not counting the part-timers, he might even be the smartest. I include myself in that. I've never investigated a.. | John Sandford | ||
| 5d0a659 | They both knew what they were thinking, though neither said it: Taryn Grant had what it took to be president. She had the business background, she understood economics and finance, she had the money wrapped up, she looked terrific, she had a mind that understood the necessary treacheries: a silken Machiavelli. | John Sandford | ||
| 7a7f3b3 | vegetables in your restaurants are not so good." "Better in Russia?" Reynolds asked, interested. "I should say so," Nadya said. "Also better in France, in Germany, in Scandinavia, in Italy, in Israel." | John Sandford | ||
| 3f5272d | THE DAY WAS PERFECT: low eighties, bluebird sky, the slightest touch of a breeze. If the Minnesota August lasted all year, nobody would live anywhere else. | John Sandford | ||
| 28f089a | You've got pretty good taste." She pulled out a suit, looked at it, put it back, pulled out another. "I can remember, you always wore good suits, good-looking suits, even before you were rich." "I like suits," he said. "They feel good. I like Italian suits, actually. I've had a couple of British suits, and they were okay, but they felt ... constructed. Like I was wearing a building. But the Italians - they know how to make a suit." "Ever tr.. | suits | John Sandford | |
| 7e53b20 | I - Beth Risk - did something good. | Katie McGarry | ||
| c95f069 | He looked directly at Grant: "I will tell them that I think you are guilty of the murder of three people and that you were the sponsor of the child-pornography smear, and that I think a person of your brand of social pathology--I believe you are a psychopath, and I will tell them that--has no place in the Senate. And I will continue to argue that here in Minnesota for the full six years of your term, and do everything I can to wreck any pos.. | John Sandford | ||
| 287f0ab | His ex-wife, Truly, whom he still occasionally visited, wore various pieces of camo, depending on daily fashion demands--more at Walmart, less at Target. | John Sandford | ||
| aac932b | The regular campaign staff, including the regular campaign manager, had no idea that the shadow staff existed. | John Sandford | ||
| ca12c42 | depression was to be feared--and he could feel it sniffing around outside his door, looking for a way in. | John Sandford | ||
| d6b4554 | argued that depression is a terrible word for the affliction. Should be called something like mindstorm. Still, Lucas's intuition told him that mindstorms didn't just show up: they needed something to chew on. | John Sandford | ||
| b418be6 | operations, trying to get things straight. He now had so much metal in his pelvis that he carried a TSA Notification Card just to get on an airplane. Despite the lingering disability, he'd gone back to full-time in April. He sat back down again. "I found Brett Givens working as a sign man for a real estate dealership over in Edina," he said. "He drives a pickup, goes around putting up signs, or taking them down." Lucas knew Givens: "Better .. | John Sandford | ||
| 2746f67 | All right. I'll keep it quiet." "Attaboy. This thing is going to work out, Lucas. For us. It really shouldn't matter whether we get the killer this week or in two weeks. What matters right now is to try to square up this election. Let's focus on that: you do what you do, and let me try to get things straight with the voters." | John Sandford | ||
| 9abe340 | I'll have to think about it, but I can do that," Taryn said. "Of course you can," Dannon said. "But don't think about ways to trick them or outsmart them. Just focus on your ignorance. You don't know anything, but you're willing to speculate, and you'd like some information from them--to hear what they think." "What about you and Carver?" "We can handle it," Dannon said. "We've spent half our lives lying to cops, of one kind or another. Nob.. | John Sandford | ||
| d5322e3 | Just about killed ourselves out there in the dark," Carver said. "He's gone. Put a few concrete blocks on top of him, just in case." "In case of what?" Taryn asked, fascinated in spite of herself. "Well . . . body gases," Carver said. "The ground was a little wet, you wouldn't want him popping up." | John Sandford | ||
| d5451a6 | Coyotes don't eat dachshunds," Johnson said. "Dachshunds were bred to go down badger tunnels and drag the badgers out by their ass. A good-sized dachshund could weigh thirty pounds and has jaws like a crocodile. Old Dixie would straight-out fuck up a coyote." | John Sandford | ||
| c804fe5 | She shook her head. "I don't know the details, exactly, but he was a lobbyist for the Minnesota Apiary Association." "You mean, archery?" Jeff asked. "No, apiary, Daddy. You know, honey bees. There was some kind of licensing thing going on," Brittany said. "The state was going to put on a fee, and some of the bee guys said they wouldn't bring their hives into Minnesota if that happened, and Tubbs thought that the bees were interstate commer.. | John Sandford | ||
| 65b1b33 | She'd just come back when Marvel tapped the computer screen and said, "See, what happened was, this guy, Representative Diller, got the licensing fees on semi-trailers reduced by about half, so they'd supposedly be in line with what they were in the surrounding states. He said he wanted to do that so the trucking companies wouldn't move out of Minnesota. But what you see over here is a bunch of 1099 forms that were sent by trucking companie.. | John Sandford | ||
| b68e51d | Amani knew Baz's fatwa by heart, about women being forbidden from driving, and she proudly quoted, "Depravity leads to the innocent and pure women being accused of indecencies. Allah has laid down one of the harshest punishments for such an act to protect society from the spreading of the causes of depravity. Women driving cars, however, is one of the causes that lead to that." Now Maha was dancing around the room, singing her words in a lo.. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 9775ff4 | as women overcome one obstacle, another appears | Jean Sasson | ||
| dc36f10 | I came to dread what I might discover next in the cruel world of men | Jean Sasson | ||
| 50ee5b9 | We must support all women in their endeavors to help others. When you harm a woman, you harm the whole world. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 2399104 | the world of men harbours a morbid condition of overfondness for themselves | Jean Sasson | ||
| 42ab578 | Saudi Arabia, and began having children, Osama bin Laden completed his high school education at the Al-Thager | Jean Sasson | ||
| b059110 | it was a known topic: The day of the virgin was leaving our land! Ali puckered | Jean Sasson | ||
| 39c10e2 | only the men and the wind are completely free | Jean Sasson | ||
| 6cd2c0a | Your tongue is your horse, and if you let it loose it will betray you. | Jean Sasson | ||
| ea2a068 | My voice thick with frustration, I declared that if men and women could only meet each other under normal circumstances, that delusions of instant love would be more infrequent. While I do believe that great attractions lead to genuine love, such as it had with my sister, Sara, and her husband, Assad, such a happy outcome is rare. When men and women rarely have the opportunity to enjoy the other's company in ordinary social occasions, spont.. | culture feminism royal-family women | Jean Sasson | |
| 4b84e76 | When the normal is forbidden, people fall into the abnormal. | Jean Sasson | ||
| a61156a | the emancipation of women is a freedom worth fighting for | Jean Sasson | ||
| 07fde64 | whisper their good-byes. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 3a013ab | The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 3985253 | Fairness does not govern life and death. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4003170 | He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. " 'Love is the only rational act." | careful effect love only pause rational repeat wise | Mitch Albom |