First-lines Quote by Mark Zero

Police Asked A Thief..

— Gyanendra

“I am taken to the police station and they place me in an interrogation room. I am there for about thirty minutes before someone…

— Jorge Ortiz

“He was sitting at his desk. He had to get some relief from seeing what he did not want to see. The factory was…

— Philip Roth

“I took a walk from Friedrichstrasse Station. That appears to be the train station from which I left in 1983 and in 1988. Then,…

— Josip Novakovich

“In my stolen photographs -- for the photographer must be a thief, he must steal instants of other people's time to make his own…

— Salman Rushdie

“And I could hardly have resigned myself to the simple, vulgar, direct debauchery of a clerk and have endured all the filthiness of it.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious…

— Francis Iles

“Stealing equipment from a small-town fire station is such an easy, petty crime,” Nick said. “It feels anticlimactic after starting the day in New…

— Janet Evanovich

“parked and placed the POLICE sign on the dashboard.”

— Ian Rankin

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs…

— Anonymous

“He was walking around in circles, the smell of the old furniture suddenly very distinct. There was a newspaper in his hand and he…

— Peter Ackroyd

“What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor…

— Terry Pratchett