“About a billion cops,” Darling said. “You move there, you’ll have fifty government workers looking at you, checking your tax records, asking where you moved there from, where you work now, how long you’ve been there. California is like a… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
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
“A certain percentage of technological societies severely damage their own planets before they become mature enough to understand the damage they are doing. In… — John Sandford Copy Share
“truth, that he wasn’t involved in the murder, but Virgil wasn’t yet ready to label him nope. After a moment, Virgil said, “I’m going… — John Sandford Copy Share
“The anger that was coursing through America deeply worried her. Although she was too young to remember the beginnings of the civil rights, anti–Vietnam… — John Sandford Copy Share
“Space junk had made low Earth orbit space almost unusable by the mid-thirties, and it had taken a decade of concerted and costly international… — John Sandford Copy Share
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the… — John Sandford Copy Share
“LIKE ANY GOOD MINNESOTAN, Lucas rarely missed the TV weather before going to bed.” — John Sandford Copy Share
“Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.” — John Sandford Copy Share
“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,… — John Sandford Copy Share
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like… — John Sandford Copy Share
