Daniel Farthing > Daniel Farthing's Quotes

“It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness”
― Louis L'Amour, The Sixth Shotgun

“I heard the pitter patter of little old feet.”
― Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons

“I try to avoid eating endangered species, let alone mythical ones. You”
― Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons

“People aren’t prepared because they assume that somebody else will always fix the problem,”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“I’m addicted to food. The”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“If you wanted to see into the future, you just had to look to the past. Reaching”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Everything in their lives depends on me, and yet they don’t care. Society”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“A knife slash with a sharp blade almost never caused pain unless delivered with force. As the skin parted, there was only a stinging sensation. Spinning,”
― David Morrell, The Naked Edge: A Cavanaugh/Protector Novel

“The trouble with instant gratification is, it takes too long.”
― David Morrell, The Naked Edge: A Cavanaugh/Protector Novel

“He showed his love and determination by burning her BMW and strangling her cat, then”
― David Morrell, The Naked Edge: A Cavanaugh/Protector Novel

“Cavanaugh believed that the term “martial arts” was a self-contradiction. When it came to combat, there was nothing artistic, nothing smooth and graceful about it.”
― David Morrell, The Naked Edge: A Cavanaugh/Protector Novel

“Fine motor skills, which use dexterity and hand/eye coordination to perform precise movements (accurate shooting, for example) disintegrate at 115 heartbeats per minute. Complex motor skills, which help muscle groups perform a series of blunt movements (kicks and punches, for example) disintegrate at 145 heartbeats per minute. But most hand-to-hand combat causes the heart to surge to 200 beats per minute. In that frenzy of adrenaline, the combatant becomes one of two large furious deadly animals charging one another.”
― David Morrell, The Naked Edge: A Cavanaugh/Protector Novel

“It's not polite to pass out when you've got company. Conversation,”
― David Morrell, The Naked Edge: A Cavanaugh/Protector Novel

“make sure you wore gloves when you loaded the magazines so there won't be any prints on the ejected cartridges. Then”
― David Morrell, The Naked Edge: A Cavanaugh/Protector Novel

“A cool head. That's the secret to getting along in life, gentlemen. You”
― David Morrell, The Naked Edge: A Cavanaugh/Protector Novel

“Don't you love it when a plan comes together?” Carl”
― David Morrell, The Naked Edge: A Cavanaugh/Protector Novel

“A friend is somebody who accepts your faults, who's there for you always, even when you're not your best, somebody who'll do anything for you, somebody you can count on totally, just as a friend can count on you. It's the most powerful relationship there is. Most”
― David Morrell, The Naked Edge: A Cavanaugh/Protector Novel

“Some people are too self-involved to follow fate.”
― Zack Scott, Four

“Private Gregory Jennings. The most likely one to die on the mission,”
― Zack Scott, Four

“Wet sounds of thrusting, smacking and laughing filled the room. The”
― Zack Scott, Four

“Oh. I agree.” If he ever blanked out during a conversation, which was frequent, he’d agree with whatever the other person said.”
― Zack Scott, Four

“The infected monster swatted Howard, sending the small man flying across the room. He exploded against a wall, a”
― Zack Scott, Four

“You look like a Jewish Leprechaun.”
― Zack Scott, Four

“Screaming kids should be banished to the darkness whence they came.”
― Zack Scott, Four

“Thus, he and his gun had been sent to do the deed, in the interests of national security, which seemed to be a catchall to justify any death, anywhere, any time.”
― David Baldacci, The Guilty

“he had fired the shot that had killed one male adult and one female child. With”
― David Baldacci, The Guilty

“In the military, snipers were almost always deployed in two-person teams. A spotter added security and firepower, set up and calculated shots, kept on top of elements like wind that could vary shots. When the shooter got tired, which often happened because waiting to kill was an exhausting exercise, the team would switch roles and spotter would become sniper.”
― David Baldacci, The Guilty

“Sad as it seems, I miss both the flies and Ma with equal measure.”
― Barry Napier, Nests

“Dinner that night consisted of a can of green beans and a snack-sized cup of sliced peaches. Kendra”
― Barry Napier, Nests

“That version of me had been replaced by a creature that killed when it was necessary and then burned the bodies behind a house that did not belong to him.”
― Barry Napier, Nests