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Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2) QUOTES

Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2) QUOTES

1 " Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean. "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

2 " My problem with that is I don’t believe God cares what we do. Everything is equally relevant and irrelevant to God. A religion is nothing more than a political party organized around some guy’s moral views, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, like conventional political parties are organized around some guy’s economic views. "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

3 " legs "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

4 " Death had a strange effect on the left-behind people. Some found peace and a new life; some clutched the death to their breasts. "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

5 " satellite view. “They could "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

6 " He may have also envied the fact that his son was a cop, the preacher thought of himself as a man of peace, and he envied the man of action.

The son didn't envy the father. Virgil had been raised in a church and the problems his father dealt with, he thought, would have driven him crazy. It's relatively easy to solve a problem with a gun and a warrant and a prison, but what do you do about somebody who is unloved? "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

7 " Janey.

A problem. He liked her, but only for a couple of hours at a time. "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

8 " The high Wisconsin bluffs on the St. Croix are such a dark green that in bright afternoon sunlight, they seem almost black. "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

9 " Heart of Darkness "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

10 " the points of view of a lot of people I’d opposed at the start. That the Vietnam War was a waste "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

11 " like an ink drop falling into a coal cellar. "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

12 " It's about time you got here, you hunk."

He gave her a little squeeze an asked, "Why don't you run away with me?"

"Then you wouldn't have a job and I'd have to support you." Weather said.

"Then he'd be dead and you wouldn't have to support him," Davenport said.

"Still, couple good days at a Motel 6 in Mankato . . . might be worth it," Virgil said to her.

Davenport said, "Yeah it would be. When you're right, you're right. "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

13 " up by three metal desks, each with a computer "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)