Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“TV. It’s like if you’re not on it, you don’t exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.” — John Sandford Culture Copy Share Image
“He shook his head. “I don’t know. Someplace crookeder than here.” “You know a place crookeder than Dallas?” “Sure.” — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“Crow was getting a contact high from the dope; either that, or from the jambalaya.” — John Sandford Bird Copy Share Image
“Flowers wouldn’t be buttering their toast after the next election, but Pweters might be.” — John Sandford Election Copy Share Image
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing. — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“Lot of Irish in Mexico. The Mexican name, Obregon? It comes from O’Brien.” — John Sandford Irish Copy Share Image
“sounded pretty good.” The newspaper extra came out in the afternoon, with” — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“I'm a picture of abject fear. If I had my choice between flying to El Paso or getting a colonoscopy, I'd have… — John Sandford Cancer Copy Share Image
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“vegetables in your restaurants are not so good.” “Better in Russia?” Reynolds asked, interested. “I should say so,” Nadya said. “Also better… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“The thing about Botox is that when you've had too much, you then have to fake reactions just to look human--and it's… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. — John Sandford Cities Copy Share Image
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly,… — John Sandford Countryside Copy Share Image
“Cops and schoolteachers,” Sloan said with satisfaction. “A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the… — John Sandford Happy family Copy Share Image
“Space junk had made low Earth orbit space almost unusable by the mid-thirties, and it had taken a decade of concerted and… — John Sandford Space Copy Share Image
“DDT stood for Dangerous Darrell Thomas. Thomas had given himself the name when he was riding with a motorcycle club and was… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“After a fast lunch, Lucas, Letty, and Skye went over to Swede Hollow Park to look for other travelers. They found three,… — John Sandford Pilate Copy Share Image
“phone, twisted it out of her hand, and slammed it on the hook. “I cry good, don’t I?” she asked with a… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“Detective Virgil and Barlow [bomb-technician] arranged to meet at the Starbucks. Virgil got a grande hot chocolate, no-fat milk, no foam, no… — John Sandford Coffee Copy Share Image
“Y’know what I think? I think they’re pump-priming. I think they’re giving us technology that they expect will make us more valuable… — John Sandford Generosity Copy Share Image
“Telephones. Everybody was leaning on telephones.” Lucas took a phone from his pocket and held it up, then looked at it, at… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“Got here half an hour ago and had a look, eyeballin' it," Sawyer said. "It's murder, all right. Tell you something else… — John Sandford Bad blood Copy Share Image
“think I get it. Destroying a depot to get what you want, when it gives stuff away freely, would be killing a… — John Sandford Copy Share Image