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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/about-a-billion-cops-darling-said-you-move-there-you-ll-have-fifty/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

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> [“California is like a Nazi state with palm trees”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/california-is-like-a-nazi-state-with-palm-trees/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

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## More by John Sandford

> [ Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" \[drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers\] Dark of the Moon, p.7 ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/gonna-rain-like-a-cow-pissin-on-a-flat-rock-drugstore-clerk-to/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [“A certain percentage of technological societies severely damage their own planets before they become mature enough to understand the damage they are doing. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/a-certain-percentage-of-technological-societies-severely-damage-their/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/truth-that-he-wasn-t-involved-in-the-murder-but-virgil-wasn-t-yet/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [“to somebody. It’s hard to believe he’d get a break”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/to-somebody-it-s-hard-to-believe-he-d-get-a-break/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [“doing this for a long time, honey. I’d be”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/doing-this-for-a-long-time-honey-i-d-be/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [“be somebody dead . . . maybe”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/be-somebody-dead-maybe/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/nuts-don-t-come-in-bunches-only-grapes-do/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/the-anger-that-was-coursing-through-america-deeply-worried-her/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 costly international…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/space-junk-had-made-low-earth-orbit-space-almost-unusable-by-the-mid/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/with-most-of-my-books-i-ll-actually-go-out-and-look-at-the-setting-if/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [“bureaucrat said. “Come back with a search warrant”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/bureaucrat-said-come-back-with-a-search-warrant/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [“LIKE ANY GOOD MINNESOTAN, Lucas rarely missed the TV weather before going to bed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/like-any-good-minnesotan-lucas-rarely-missed-the-tv-weather-before/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [“Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/oh-yeah-i-heard-you-got-born-again-she-said-which-you-needed-since/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/it-s-the-way-of-the-world-man-there-are-the-worker-bees-and-the/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 people like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sandford/when-you-re-building-a-character-or-at-least-when-i-m-building-a/)

[John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sandford/)

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