The Last Call Quotes

“There is no greater thrill in life than to find that you are not only useful, but that you can help, and that your help matters.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“in the dry, North Texas climate, and the room’s only permanent occupant, seated in the rocking chair, grinned vacantly in the dark, waiting”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Back during the early 1920s the Carpin brothers ran the small slapped-together oil boomtown a few miles east of Stinnett in what was little more than a den of bootleggers, gamblers and other criminals of low order. During those days of the roaring twenties, men on the far side of the law either rose to the top of the heap or got stomped under. For a brief time the Carpins were on the top of that heap. When Signal Hill was cleaned out by the Texas Rangers in 1927, the former boomtown imploded and the Carpins, who had managed to avoid arrest and capture, had dispersed.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“After a lifetime spent in earnest earnest then what? After chasing after just such, it would have grinned even wider, if old corpses could… but then?”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“now (at the time of this writing) ten books”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“How can I help you?” “Mr. Travis. I’m not sure you can. I’m not sure anybody can.” I’d heard this before. A few times it’s been true. It’s a marvel to me the whole spectrum of trouble that human beings can get themselves into. I suppose I’ve seen most everything.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“my”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Whatever, man. Whatever. I’ll see you in hell.” I left the pack of smokes there on the table for him, but I took my lighter. I stood and turned away from Norman Howell and rapped once on the door. There was a grating sound as a key turned in the lock”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“hound-dog”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Behind me, ahead of me, behind. I didn't turn my head. Not even once. But then she came right alongside. My exit lane was coming up, but suddenly I wasn’t taking it. I had bigger”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“— I could have made as much headway”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“brings us up to present time. I've”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“room.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Blackjack” Johanssen.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Uh huh,” he agree.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“There came an indefinable moment, no more than just an instant, in which something passed”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“A spring, a week, a day of pure hell and beauty. I suppose that when I was a kid, I must have held a fervent wish that my life would go just the way it was going, and to that kid, if he were watching, all this must seem about perfect.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“She was trouble. Green eyes and reddish hair. And she was trouble. No way I could have run.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“My friend, all my life I have kept in my mind an image of what hell must look like, and now I have found it.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“The shifting pattern of willow frond shade and sunlight in her hair with shimmers of pure spun gold, delicate sharp pink tongue removing pudding from her front teeth, soft yet piercing green eyes with too much knowledge about the world and not enough of the mundane; and dark secrets hidden like treasures,”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“I found myself wondering whether or not I'd died and gone someplace I couldn't begin to deserve. Her sunglasses lay not an inch from my right hand, which held the scalding cup of coffee from which I sipped.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Penny, are you sure this not Mr. Bierstone’s appointment?”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“duplex”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“the only way to head off trouble was to face it head on. Doing anything else only tends to stack it up deeper further down the road.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“while times change and mankind appears to progress, there are some who still abide in the dark and heed no law except the grim laws of survival and revenge.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Probably he wouldn’t be interested. It was just a news story from a bygone age. Ancient history. And”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“coming in over the trees away to the east of us. Rain clouds.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“taking unfair advantage of folks of good will and had become”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“time, I realized as we sped through the night toward destinations”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“interior lights came on as Julie opened the passenger door”
― George Wier, The Last Call