The First Deadly Sin Quotes

“It was a city sprung and lurching. It throbbed to a crippled rhythm, celebrated death with insensate glee. Filth pimpled its nightmare streets. The air smelled of ashes.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin

“This was fraternity house stuff, and it displeased him.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin

“in 1971 New York City had more murders than American combat deaths in Vietnam during the same period.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin

“can do something about crime. Not a lot, I admit, but something. Because crime, all crime, is irrational. It is opposed to the logic of life, and so it is evil. And that is why I became a cop.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin

“They would see it through together, the two of them, her strength added to his. The aggregate—by the peculiar alchemy of their love—was greater than the sum of the parts.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin

“It was such a whole-hearted expression of pure joy: her eyes squinched shut, her mouth open, shoulders shaking, and a surprisingly full, deep guffaw that was neither feminine nor masculine but sexless and primitive as all genuine laughter.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin

“and I”
― Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin

“I know a good chop house near Macy’s. Do you like mutton chops?” “Hate them.” “Idiot. That heavy, gamy taste … nothing like it.” “Can I get a broiled kidney?” “Of course.” “Then let’s have lunch at your chop house.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin

“the need for gun control laws and a new moral climate.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin