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Mad River (Virgil Flowers, #6) QUOTES

Mad River (Virgil Flowers, #6) QUOTES

1 " he thought a bit about God, and whether He might be some kind of universal digital computer, subject to the occasional bug or hack. Was it possible that politicians and hedge-fund operators were some kind of garbled cosmic computer code? That the Opponent, instead of having horns and a forked tail, was a fat bearded guy drinking Big Gulps and eating anchovy pizzas and writing viruses down in a hellish basement? That prayers weren’t answered because Satan was running denial-of-service attacks? "

― John Sandford , Mad River (Virgil Flowers, #6)

2 " I once defenestrated a guy. The cops got all pissed off at me. I was drunk, but they said that was no excuse."

"Ah well," Virgil said. Then, "The guy hurt bad?"

"Cracked his hip. Landed on a Prius. Really fucked up the Prius, too."

"I can tell you, just now is the only time in my life I ever heard 'defenestration' used in a sentence," Virgil said.

"It's a word you learn after you done it," Morton said. "Yup. The New Prague AmericInn, 2009."

Virgil was amazed. "Really? The defenstration of New Prague? "

― John Sandford , Mad River (Virgil Flowers, #6)

3 " So what killed him?" Virgil asked. "I'm thinking aliens."

You mean like, Canadians? "

― John Sandford , Mad River (Virgil Flowers, #6)

4 " sounded pretty good.” The newspaper extra came out in the afternoon, with "

― John Sandford , Mad River (Virgil Flowers, #6)

5 " something about little Dicky.” She pulled at her bottom lip for a moment, as if pulling her head together, and then she said, “He didn’t exactly rape me.” Virgil said, “Not exactly.” “Not exactly. We were a year out of high school, and we were drinking in my old man’s bar after hours, and Dicky kept pouring it down me . . . hell, it was free . . . and he is a good-looking thing . . . and, he just did it to me,” she said. “I kind of think I resisted, but I was no virgin, and I kind of think I led him on . . . but I think I tried to say no, and he did it anyway. The "

― John Sandford , Mad River (Virgil Flowers, #6)

6 " VIRGIL HAD BEEN WORKING the telephone from his truck, "

― John Sandford , Mad River (Virgil Flowers, #6)