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61 " We will go to heaven or we will go to hell, but we will go together. "
― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)
62 " Left-wing lesbians are perfectly natural,” Giorgio says, “but there’s something about a right-wing lesbian that’s, I don’t know…almost North American. Sort of Fox News–ish. "
63 " He tells his guys, you change the oil in a Nissan, you just can't kill it. You'll die before that car will. "
64 " Now he seeks truth in silence. He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth, stillness, and God. "
65 " You call the wolf, you get the pack. "
― Don Winslow , The Force
66 " Sad Fact of Life— Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. "
― Don Winslow , The Kings of Cool (Savages, #1)
67 " The bozo who’s going to go early John Woo all over the manicured lawns and flower beds just to show he doesn’t give a fuck about convention. "
― Don Winslow , Savages (Savages #2)
68 " Simon drove as if he knew something about physics that Einstein hadn’t thought of and God never intended. If nature abhorred a vacuum, Simon positively loathed one, and rushed to fill in the tiniest gap in the heavy flow of speeding traffic. He passed on the right, left, center, and all variations in between, and the Keble responded as if involved in some kind of blood compact with its human master. "
― Don Winslow , A Cool Breeze on the Underground (Neal Carey, #1)
69 " So that dirt we're standing on, 'solid ground'?It's moving beneath us.Taking us for a ride.Face it - whether we know it or not, we're all always surfing. "
― Don Winslow
70 " I don’t know what the hell I was doing, all right?! I don’t recognize myself. I don’t know who I am anymore. And it’s all fun and games until someone loses an I. "
71 " We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It’s what we owe to each other. Chuy goes inside. Keller sits outside on a bench and waits. The words of the psalm come back to him— “Be still and know that I am God.” There is nothing to do but be still. "
72 " You know the word 'barbarian’ came from the Romans? It meant 'redheaded.’ They was talking about you people. I saw that on the—what do you call it?—the History Channel, last night. "
― Don Winslow , The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog #1)
73 " There has always been philosophical speculation on the question, What if there were no God? Keller thinks as he walks through the slush. But no one has really asked, much less answered, the question, What if there were no Satan? The answer to the former is that there would be chaos in heaven and on earth. But the answer to the latter is that there would be chaos in hell—all the lesser demons would be set loose in an amoral struggle to become the new Prince of Darkness. The fight for heaven is one thing. The fight for hell … If God is dead, and so is Satan, well … Merry Christmas. "
― Don Winslow , The Border (Power of the Dog, #3)
74 " Maybe, Keller thinks, I’ve become too used to solitude. Maybe I like it too much. "
75 " Not in San Salvador, he thinks, where the shanty slums press against gleaming high-rises like the thatched huts of medieval peasants pressed against castle walls. Except these castle walls are patrolled by private security guards wielding automatic rifles and machine pistols. And at night, the guards venture out from the castle walls and ride through the villages ...and slaughter the peasants, leaving their bodies at crossroads and in the middle of village squares, and rape and kill women and execute children in front of their parents. So the survivors will know their place. It’s a killing ground, Art thinks. El Salvador. The Savior, my ass. "
76 " the old “4-4-40” rough standard for human survival: four minutes without air, four days without water, forty days without food. "
77 " You can either love,” Pablo says, “or you can talk about it. You can’t do both. "
78 " Deliver my soul from the sword; my love from the power of the dog. Psalms 22:20 "
79 " He’s hunted enough guys to know that their own heads can be their worst enemies. They start seeing things that aren’t there, then, worse, not seeing things that are. They worry and worry, and chew on their own insides, until, when you do track them down, they’re almost grateful. By this time, they’ve been killed so many times in their minds that the real thing is a relief. "
― Don Winslow , The Winter of Frankie Machine
80 " The good things in this world aren’t done by saints. They’re done by compromised people doing the best they can. "