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Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24) QUOTES

Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24) QUOTES

1 " It’s the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves. "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

2 " I could live here,” Del said. “No, you couldn’t. You’d turn into a coot and hang out at the general store, with your fly down,” Lucas said. “You’d be known for goosing middle-aged women. You’d be the town embarrassment. "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

3 " Scratching their nails on the blackboard of futility. "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

4 " but failed, and "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

5 " Lucas dropped by, and recognized Kent from newspaper photos. "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

6 " dealing with a . . . peculiarity. A week after "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

7 " her. “From what you’ve told us, the killer "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

8 " rather than rolling it down the "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

9 " there, looking for a man they wouldn’t find. They’d go because they’d know for sure that Horn couldn’t be in Goodhue County, where he’d be known and chased on sight. . . . Horn had suggested another step: killing a woman from the Alexandria area, still farther "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

10 " any dairies or pig farms around there. We could "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

11 " It’s the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves.” • "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

12 " Scratching their fingernails on blackboards of futility. "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

13 " off the couch when they walked in, and said, “Whelp, I got a lesson in twenty minutes, I better get to work.” “Work” was a golf course, where he was a teaching pro. When Rex had gone in the Cadillac, Lucas introduced Mattsson and Elle; Jorgenson settled the other two women on the couch, and Lucas in a La-Z-Boy. “I have to tell you that I’m a little upset by all this,” she said. “I never believed that Horn was still out there. I thought he’d crawled off somewhere and died, or was gone to Brazil or something. I mean, I am so scared. I got Rex to put his gun under the bed.” “I think he’d have a hard time finding you, that you wouldn’t hear about it before he got here,” Lucas said. “Oh, pish,” she said. “If he knows anything about computers, he could find me in "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

14 " TV. It’s like if you’re not on it, you don’t exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture. "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

15 " don’t have them all, yet. "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

16 " He wasn’t a big fan of actual blood. He wanted submission, and sex, and . . . admiration? Well, fear, anyway. Respect. "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

17 " pleasant-enough place, as cemeteries went, and if somebody had told him that he’d be buried there, after a life of, say, a hundred forty years and much more sex and barbecue, he would have been content with the prospect. "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

18 " From what I hear, if we’re going down to the well—the cistern—we’re gonna want to burn the clothes afterwards,” Del said. “I’d rather burn a polyester shirt than a two-thousand-dollar Italian suit. Or three-thousand-dollar Romanian shoes.” “British shoes. And when you’re right, you’re right. "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

19 " There was some confusion at the beginning, when Layton unrolled the first rubber, rather than rolling it down the erect appendage, and was reduced to trying to pull it on like a sock. "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

20 " doing this for a long time, honey. I’d be "

― John Sandford , Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)