Broken

by Don Winslow

Crime 101: Laws are made to be broken, with rules that are made to be followed.

Crime 101: Getting out one job too early puts you on the beach. Getting out one job too late puts you in a cell.

Crime 101: “Trust” is a word generally used by convicts and usually in the past tense—i.e., “I trusted him.”

Crime 101: Every series of acts creates a pattern.

What we have here,

is a highway robber. And a specific highway robber. Highway 101.

Crime 101: There’s a word for a man who believes in coincidence: the defendant.

If you have a five-bedroom house on a bluff over La Jolla Cove, a garage full of Lambos and Maseratis, some diamonds worth more than a cul-de-sac of suburban homes, you don’t call a gecko, you don’t call Flo, you don’t call a guy who’s seen it all because he’s covered it all—none of those guys will underwrite that level of risk.

Crime 101: Don’t stick your dick where it doesn’t belong.

Crime 101: Never tell anyone anything they don’t need to know.

Crime 101: The second trip through the buffet line ends in the prison cafeteria.

Crime 101: If you can’t do it without pulling a trigger, you shouldn’t be doing it.

Crime 101: There’s a word for a man who believes in coincidence: the defendant.

Crime 101: If a job feels wrong, it is wrong.

Fucking is a meeting of the genitals, dinner a meeting of the minds, and Lou gets the impression that the former is more common on the 101.

Crime 101: Always better to go up against smart than stupid.

Crime 101: Never be predictable.

Crime 101: Dress for your business.

Crime 101: Always have a backup.

Crime 101,

Always do what Steve McQueen would do.

Crime 101: If you can get away, get away.

CRIME 101.

They say never meet your heroes. They should have added and for God’s sake, never make them your friends.

there’s no wave that takes you anywhere but back to who you are.

They say that what you don’t know can’t hurt you. (Ignorance being bliss.) They’re wrong.

What you don’t know can hurt you. Badly.

the best part of ourselves is trapped inside the worst part of ourselves and just can’t manage to get out.