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" Mr. Pepe?” “Yeah, Judge?” “I would tell you what my grandmother used to say to me: You can’t ride two horses with one behind—” “You can if you do it right, Judge, heh heh heh.” Oh, man. “I would tell you,” Hester continued, “but you’re beyond hope. I would call you pond scum, Mr. Pepe, but really, is that fair to scum? Scum really doesn’t hurt anybody while you, being a miserable excuse for a human being, will leave nothing but a lifetime of waste and destruction in your path. Oh, and skanks.” “Hey, "
― Harlan Coben , Caught
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" Stanton closed the top drawer, opened the second one. “Maybe I’m new, maybe I’ll get more jaded. But the law cleared this guy. Period, the end. If you don’t like that, change the law. We in law enforcement need to be impartial referees. If the speed limit is fifty-five miles per hour, then you ticket a guy going fifty-six. If you think, nah, don’t ticket until he’s going sixty-five, then change the law to sixty-five. And it works the other way too. Following the rules, the judge freed Dan Mercer. If you don’t like that, change the law. Don’t bend the rules. Legally change them.” Walker "
― Harlan Coben , Caught