John Sandford

“don’t have them all, yet.”

— John Sandford

“sued, but the”

— John Sandford

“Does a chicken have lips?”

— John Sandford

“Even thinking was hard.”

— John Sandford

“either lived in, or recently had lived”

— John Sandford

“Take a while to find all that out, but I won’t lose any”

— John Sandford

“asked the local media not to mention it, but”

— John Sandford

“LUCAS AND HARMON drifted toward the”

— John Sandford

“Does Raggedy Ann have a cotton crotch?”

— John Sandford

“doing this for a long time, honey. I’d be”

— John Sandford

“major country-western nightclub, one”

— John Sandford

“Never been there, the Middle East," Qatar said vaguely.”

— John Sandford

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

— John Sandford

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

— John Sandford

“He shook his head. “I don’t know. Someplace crookeder than here.” “You know a place crookeder than Dallas?” “Sure.”

— John Sandford

“Crow was getting a contact high from the dope; either that, or from the jambalaya.”

— John Sandford

“Flowers wouldn’t be buttering their toast after the next election, but Pweters might be.”

— John Sandford

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

“Lot of Irish in Mexico. The Mexican name, Obregon? It comes from O’Brien.”

— John Sandford

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

— John Sandford

“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

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

“vegetables in your restaurants are not so good.” “Better in Russia?” Reynolds asked, interested. “I should say so,” Nadya said. “Also better…

— John Sandford

“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

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

— John Sandford

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

“Cops and schoolteachers,” Sloan said with satisfaction. “A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the…

— John Sandford

“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

“DDT stood for Dangerous Darrell Thomas. Thomas had given himself the name when he was riding with a motorcycle club and was…

— John Sandford

“After a fast lunch, Lucas, Letty, and Skye went over to Swede Hollow Park to look for other travelers. They found three,…

— John Sandford

“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

“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

“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

“Telephones. Everybody was leaning on telephones.” Lucas took a phone from his pocket and held it up, then looked at it, at…

— John Sandford

“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

“think I get it. Destroying a depot to get what you want, when it gives stuff away freely, would be killing a…

— John Sandford

“Nancy on the left, Mary on the right.” “Hard”

— John Sandford

“be somebody dead . . . maybe”

— John Sandford

Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.

— John Sandford

“death. On impulse, she picked up the remote”

— John Sandford