Crime Quote by Andrew Barrett

“It had been more or less the same for Jilly. Except that she had her parents there to field any phone calls, to accept…

— Andrew Barrett

“If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals!”

— Andrew Barrett

“She had known it was bad, call it a mother’s instinct, but she’d known this was the knock that was going to scoop her…

— Andrew Barrett

“…but his problem was infinity; his problem was time running along the x-axis versus stress running along the y-axis, and there never seemed to…

— Andrew Barrett

“He couldn’t read her these days; it was as though she’d been taken away from him, and in her place some alien had dropped…

— Andrew Barrett

“Like a submarine ejecting ballast, he bobbed to the surface as another sense pulled his eyelids all the way open like roller blinds in…

— Andrew Barrett

Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the damned lawyers…

— Andrew Barrett

“I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the same again.…

— Andrew Barrett

“Henry was now very annoyed; he had dug himself into a hole so deep that they didn’t make a rope long enough.”

— Andrew Barrett

People who go to jail breed people who go to jail.

— Andrew Barrett

“I looked at Perston‐Smythe. "Are you going to let them do this?" Cox did smile then. "Dr. Perston‐Smythe is a contracted employee of the agency. Who do you think notified us in the first place?" I took a step toward the desk and had the small pleasure of seeing the smile drop from Cox's face. Five witnesses. Better make it good. I smiled then. "I have just one thing to say, then. And I hope you'll report it to your superiors, of whom there must be many." Cox narrowed his eyes. "Yes?" "We mean no harm to your planet," I said. And jumped.”

— Steve Gould Jumper

“I think she was smiling the same kind of real smile that Tash had smiled just before she left. It’s a scary smile. It’s…

— Miriam Toews