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Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1) QUOTES

Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1) QUOTES

1 " there’s something to be said for getting out and meeting people. It breeds empathy and is good for the soul. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

2 " how come youse almonds taste like bacon? "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

3 " That almonds shouldn’t taste like bacon. That’s just weird, man. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

4 " you can come back and punch out guys whenever. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

5 " You hang around bad people, bad things happen. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

6 " If you don’t know a subject well, you can’t cover all the bases. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

7 " for all the heat they take in the papers, the boys in blue usually had the right intentions. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

8 " She looked like a secretary who’d swallowed a candy striper. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

9 " Rich guys used other people’s money to leverage more of other people’s money "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

10 " there’s a certain lack of respect for physics and biology when you ignore the power of a firearm. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

11 " Our motto: making you feel less lousy about your losses. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

12 " a big corporation will destroy your life, your hopes and your dreams accidentally, without even noticing, and still won’t give a damn afterwards. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

13 " There are certain signs of a guilty conscience that do not take a great surplus of intuition to spot. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

14 " I was already crouched, so it made sense to throw the uppercut. It’s never been my strongest punch – I’m more a stick-and-move guy, despite being close to a heavyweight, so I favor my hook. But I had a substantial tactical advantage, and I came up hard, nailing him with my right hand pretty much flush on the button, that helpful cluster of nerves at the end of the chin. His knees buckled, his eyes rolled backwards, and he crumpled like a pup tent in heavy wind, the pool cue clattering to the ground and rolling away. It hadn’t taken more than about fifteen seconds for the whole fight, including the time it had taken me to tap the cue swinger on the shoulder. But everyone in the dingy pool hall had stopped to stare, and the only sound was the blaring tune. Light streamed into the room from the wall of windows overlooking the strip "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

15 " Nearly everyone here is Irish, or Italian or Russian. But everyone displays their Star Spangled Banner in some prominent spot on their house and means it, too. "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

16 " criminals were all derived from the same ethnicity – scumbag "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)

17 " So believe me when I say that the arc of the pool cue slicing through the air towards my head was a thing of beauty, "

― Ian Loome , Quinn Checks In (Liam Quinn Mysteries #1)