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1 " I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again. "
― Steve Hamilton , The Lock Artist
2 " Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them. "
3 " It was a lesson I had taken most of my life to learn. Sometimes you have to let things go. "
― Steve Hamilton , Blood is the Sky (Alex McKnight, #5)
4 " Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever. "
― Steve Hamilton , Winter of the Wolf Moon (Alex McKnight, #2)
5 " Once you freeze all the way through to your soul, you will never feel warm again. "
6 " So there it was. My big lesson of the day, something I’d take with me and never forget. The whole legal system – if you think it’s just a big set of rules, you’re dead wrong. It’s really a bunch of people sitting around and talking to each other, deciding what they want to do with you. When they make their decision, then they pull out whatever rule they need to make it happen. "
7 " I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture. "
8 " The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, is solving the riddle of a woman's heart. "
9 " I’ve noticed how most people don’t know how to listen. "
10 " You touch a safe the way you touch a woman,” he "
11 " said. “Now that he’s found me again. Or he’d come himself. . . .” “Maria, why don’t you just sign away the full partnership money? Tell him you’ll take the twenty percent and forfeit the rest?” She looked at me. “You could stop running,” I said. “I don’t know,” she said. “Maybe "
― Steve Hamilton , The Hunting Wind (Alex McKnight, #3)
12 " This isn’t freedom. This is mobility. Don’t get those two things confused. "
― Steve Hamilton , The Second Life of Nick Mason (Nick Mason, #1)
13 " He made that same turn down that same road. The train station loomed above us. Here's where time slows down for me. It stretches out like a long rubber band, and every single event is stretched out with it. "
― Steve Hamilton , Let it Burn (Alex McKnight, #10)
14 " No patience. No skill. No intelligence. Just brute strength. They have to break something. It’s the only way they know. "
15 " understand our situation. "
― Steve Hamilton , A Cold Day in Paradise (Alex McKnight, #1)
16 " It’s not nearly far enough if you’ve already become famous for something you want to forget forever. "
17 " Nobody is safe. Ever. Anywhere. I "
18 " I’ll out-quiet anybody, in any venue for any stakes. "
19 " Halliday put up his hand to stop him. He’d been taught long ago to trust his own instincts, the same instincts that went all the way back to the brief time in his career when he’d worked with the agents who had invented a new way to track serial killers. These agents studied them; they interviewed them; they took them through every case, going over every detail. They got inside their heads, even if that was the last place you’d ever want to be. "
― Steve Hamilton , Dead Man Running (Alex McKnight, #11)
20 " Unless you're a hairdresser, you can't have a ponytail and call yourself Kenny when you're forty. Not in Michigan, anyway. "
― Steve Hamilton , North of Nowhere (Alex McKnight, #4)
