City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

by Don Winslow

Everybody sees everything and nobody sees nothing.

That’s the problem with a war: you have the challenge of trying to stay alive and at the same time make a living.

You heard about Irish Alzheimer’s? They forget everything but the grudges.”

Street cred is like any other commodity, you got to refresh it every once in a while or it loses its potency.

It’s funny about words, Danny thinks as he walks home. Most of the time they don’t mean anything. Then all of a sudden one word means everything, and I’d give anything I have to hear one word, a word that didn’t used to mean anything to me. Benign.