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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 801ab7d | But this was Northern Ireland in 1981 which was slightly less conservative than, say, Salem in 1692 | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 7323779 | more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition. | ireland irish | Adrian McKinty | |
| da14ed4 | You're a glass-half-empty kind of guy, sir, aren't you?" "I don't even acknowledge the existence of the glass, son." | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 70d8dae | Patriotism is a hard disease to eradicate, and ennui stamps us all. | Adrian McKinty | ||
| defee7d | Burglars and thieves sometimes complained that they only committed crimes against property, not like muggers and rapists. Muggers and rapists never faulted policemen at all, which caused the choirboys to comment that as a rule muggers and rapists were the most appreciative people they contacted. | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| bb39817 | I mean that a battered child has a marvelous capacity to adjust to his torture and will ceaselessly love his battering parents. I mean that the mother of a sexually molested child will not leave nor truly protect the child from the father as long as the man has a good job or otherwise preserves that mother from an economic life which is more horrifying to her than the molestation of her child. I mean that the weakness of the human race is s.. | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| b15581d | No, policemen were not danger lovers, they were seekers of the awesome, the incredible, even the unspeakable in human experience. Never mind whether they could interpret, never mind if it was potentially hazardous to the soul. To be there was the thing. | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| 29adf0f | Of course, the happy shutterbug couldn't have known that his picture of a dildo keel would soon inspire a plot leading to murder and ensnare human beings like dolphins in a gill net. For he was just a San Diego cop who drove a boat, not a true man of the sea. Not one who understands in his soul that the actions of people are like the tides that chase the moon but invariably come crashing back, with all manner of thrashing things roiling in .. | human-nature murder sea | Joseph Wambaugh | |
| d3e5076 | And as Harold Bloomguard gulped nervously all three young men nodded at Scuz. "And another thing, I'm sorry I gotta give you some a the shitty jobs but we get a vice complaint we gotta investigate it. I wish I could just let you work fun things like gambling and call girls and bookmaking back offices and fancy bars with good drinks, but that usually ain't what we gotta do. So try to have fun but don't get hurt. That's the only rule I got. Y.. | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| 65e87fc | You listen to me, Treadwell. You're an office pogue. You never been anything but an office pogue. You don't have the slightest idea what goes on in a working police division. But you keep your mouth shut and do what you're told and I'll see to it that you're a captain someday and you can have your own station to play with. You don't and I'll have you in uniform on the nightwatch in Watts. Understand me, Treadwell? | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| 3d31bdc | But Team Policing and the Basic Car Plan had created lots and lots of new jobs for officers of staff rank. Therefore lieutenants made captain, captains made commander and commanders made deputy chief, and everyone had all the time they needed to think up new things for the working cops to do aside from catching crooks, which most of the new captains, commanders and deputy chiefs knew nothing about. | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| 42c71e5 | Lawrence of Arabia said old and wise means tired and disappointed. He didn't live long enough to know how right he was. | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| cd17738 | Sometimes the boy wished they could sit and that words would flow. But when they sat, eyes would turn shyly away. Father and son usually fell silent. It was ancient inherited shame of fathers and sons. | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| 5caabc4 | Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning. | development industrialization | Joe Haldeman | |
| be037f9 | the Aleph-Null campaign. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 7c4087e | I've always thought the pre-Revolutionary system was more elegant, but it did concentrate too much power in the hands of one person. Keyes says that at least you knew who the man was then. The person who represents a Lobby in Congress is never the one who makes the real decisions; the real leaders are rarely identifiable and are never held responsible for their actions. If a puppet gets in trouble they sacrifice him and haul out another. I .. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 1488f71 | This world was no place for anyone with access to another. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| aac04b5 | Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there...the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| e139041 | You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans' having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored. The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It gave a nice hole to throw buckets of money into, but would unify humanity rather than dividing it. The | Joe Haldeman | ||
| c75ed13 | But I remember another image from Earth: the rich dark green grass that grew in graveyards. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| a9c65e1 | That meant that he'd drunk too much too early, and had popped an Alcoterm to burn it off. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 039cb9f | Marianne, how's your statistics?" "Math is my worst subject." "But you can program?" "Of course. I'm not illiterate." | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 3d7f36c | H]is skin was the color of age and his features the shape of a saint's. | poetic | Joe Haldeman | |
| cf64c21 | Well, there's always Nevada," Benny said. "You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there." | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 11b9e01 | One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century. | power science | Joe Haldeman | |
| 7bd60c2 | Have you had your first baby yet? I might have one myself, once they find a way for the man to carry it around the first nine months. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 9730d43 | Table of Contents | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 245eff3 | And it was making me a little queasy. Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 12cd9e7 | Florida and half of Georgia comprised a trigger-happy xenophobic lunatic asylum. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| b0e7323 | I have a radical thought," Meryl said. "Instead of heading for the hills with guns, why don't we try to find something like the Red Cross, and volunteer. Try to do something constructive." | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 2ae0db3 | When Isaiah was in his teens, he worked for Harry Haldeman and wondered even then how the man could stay in a state of perpetual indignation; his fierce dark eyes glaring through the Coke-bottle bifocals resting on his great beak of a nose, his snow-white hair sticking up like a toilet brush. Isaiah thought he looked like an orchestra conductor. Harry's wife, Louise, said he looked like an eagle wearing glasses. "Pit" | Joe Ide | ||
| a3e81df | You are my child. I am your mother." Helen sounded resolute. "I won't apologize for doing my job." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| f35d24d | Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again. | sad-but-true | Dennis Lehane | |
| dba24e1 | Marv stared at his phone. Kids these days. It was like on that day in school when they taught personal responsibility, this entire fucking generation had banged in sick. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| def9afe | Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing. | children | Dennis Lehane | |
| 3f6bc24 | It's been a complicated decade for me." She" -- | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 1c9ed66 | I don't have room in my heart for most people. Got nothing against them, but I got nothing for them, either. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 8cb1f09 | He held up a hand to stop her. "Then one day, about six months ago, it hit me--love doesn't trump all for you, safety does. And I knew sooner or later you'd dump me before I'd dump you because--and this is the important part, Rach--I would never dump you." He gave her a beautiful, broken smile. "And that's been my purpose all along." After" | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 7caa710 | And that's when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by a single instant of horrifying clarity. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 8a10e5c | Your father picks you up from prison in a stolen Dodge Neon with an 8-ball in the glove compartment and a hooker named Mandy in the back seat. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 34bb443 | A complaint that's not looking for a solution is a disease that's not looking for a cure. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 7794538 | It was like sitting through a movie, no matter how boring or confusing, until the end. Because at the end, sometimes things were explained or the ending itself was cool enough that you felt like sitting through all the boring stuff had been worth it. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 86b9de3 | he'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they this weilded "power" barbarically so the world would not find them out" | power | Dennis Lehane | |
| 6982e59 | Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock. | Dennis Lehane |