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The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2) QUOTES

The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2) QUOTES

41 " with simultaneous wars in Baja, Tamaulipas, and now Michoacán. Keller has to admit that the violence is unprecedented. Even at the height (the depth?) of Barrera’s war against Güero Méndez, back in the ’90s, the fighting was sporadic—brief sudden peaks of violence—not a daily event. And not spread across three broad areas of the country, with multiple and interconnected antagonists. The Alliance fighting Teo Solorzano in Baja. The Alliance fighting the CDG/Zetas in Tamaulipas. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

42 " Why do women love to talk about love?” Giorgio asks. “Why don’t men, is more the question,” Ana says. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

43 " We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

44 " Mateo runs up and Pablo hugs him. It’s amazing, he thinks, that he never gets tired of that sensation. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

45 " We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It’s what we owe to each other. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

46 " The old dictum is that “no plan survives first contact with the enemy,” and the special-ops team is already regrouping and improvising a new plan. He hears the sharp, disciplined fire "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

47 " He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth, "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

48 " He who speaks least has the most power. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

49 " A man does the right thing, does his duty and does it bravely. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

50 " Then he drinks, eats, and fucks. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

51 " This kid, he has to remember, this freaking junior varsity water boy, cut the heads off five men and rolled them across a disco floor like he was duckpin bowling.
Guilty feet ain't got no rhythm, Eddie thinks. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

52 " Betrayals start that way, with lies hidden in the shadows of silence. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

53 " Well, that’s a big chunk of truth, Eddie thinks. The Mexicans have finally found a drug that white trash likes and can afford. And one thing you ain’t never gonna run out of is white trash. That stuff makes itself. They get made in the backseats of junk cars, and then they live in them. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

54 " It is high time for us to arise from sleep. —Romans 13:11 "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

55 " Shut up! We can’t hear the mimes! —Jacques Prévert Les Enfants du Paradis "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

56 " People don’t run the cartel; the cartel runs people. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

57 " Their only weapon is shame, if the powerful can even feel it. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

58 " At least Barrera didn’t stick the envelope into her panties. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

59 " Perhaps we’re not the greater good, but we are the lesser of evils. "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

60 " There is no water to put out the fire. Mi canto la esperanza. —Carlos Santana “Maria Maria "

― Don Winslow , The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)