Prince of Thieves Quotes

“Even if a thing is doomed—there is that moment of absurd hope that is worth the fall, that is worth everything.”
― Chuck Hogan, The Town

“He was backing away behind cover fire with the engaged smile of a teenager seeing his violent daydreams come true.”
― Chuck Hogan, Prince of Thieves

“At root, the business of baseball was no better or different from the movies or from church: put on a show, promise people something transcendent, and then bleed the suckers dry.”
― Chuck Hogan, Prince of Thieves

“I'm a fucking porcupine with points.”
― Chuck Hogan, Prince of Thieves

“Thinking about drinking now was like fantasizing about the perfect crime. How he would do it—if he were going to do it.”
― Chuck Hogan, The Town

“As the song faded out, there was a spray of bullying laughter from the street below, then the pop and smash of a glass bottle shattering, followed by cursing, laughing, footsteps running away. “Nice,” grumbled Doug. Then the Little River Band came on, making it all right.”
― Chuck Hogan, Prince of Thieves

“Newbury Street was the tony promenade listed in every Boston guidebook, beginning downtown at the Public Garden and riding out in orderly alphabetical blocks, Arlington to Berkeley to Clarendon, all the way to Hereford before skipping impatiently to M, the broad Massachusetts Avenue that formed the unofficial western border of the Back Bay. Newbury Street continued beyond that dividing line, but with its spirit broken, forced to run alongside the ugly turnpike more or less as a back alley for Commonwealth Avenue, its humiliation ending at the suicide bridge.”
― Chuck Hogan, Prince of Thieves

“The cavity was empty but for a few silica-gel packets, the Do Not Eat kind packed inside sneaker boxes to absorb moisture. Frawley put his face to the opening. The smell he got was the unmistakable old-linen odor of stored cash.”
― Chuck Hogan, Prince of Thieves

“No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you’ve done, so I’ve got a long road. But I’ll know I’ll see you again, this side or the other.”
― Chuck Hogan, Prince of Thieves

“nine times out of ten, romance is a problem, not a solution.”
― Chuck Hogan, Prince of Thieves