Detective Virgil Quotes 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

— 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…

— 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…

— John Sandford

“to somebody. It’s hard to believe he’d get a break”

— John Sandford

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

— John Sandford

“be somebody dead . . . maybe”

— John Sandford

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— John Sandford

“bureaucrat said. “Come back with a search warrant”

— John Sandford

“LIKE ANY GOOD MINNESOTAN, Lucas rarely missed the TV weather before going to bed.”

— John Sandford

“Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.”

— 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,…

— 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…

— John Sandford