Blarney Quotes

“The Irishman raises his beer and says "sluncha" or "slawn chair" or something like that, obviously a Gaelic toast, and we bellow "sluncha!" and clink glasses and take long, deep, manly, Irish pub drinks.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery

“He checked himself without really looking at himself. He was ten pounds heavier and a few dozen hairs grayer than he'd been the year before. He knew that. He didn't need to see it again.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery

“Nobody in this town writes dialogue that bad on purpose. Not unless they've got a hidden agenda…or maybe a contract with Universal.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery

“The only bombshells that strike my fancy are the ones that will free the proletariat from the shackles of wage slavery.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery

“I figured at least three families could live in there comfortably. And after the Revolution, they would.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery

“Property being theft and all, I felt free to help myself.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery

“I instantly regretted it. Cynicism is a decadent pose, a façade of apathetic ennui that's antithetical to the committed idealism of the true internationalist. But when you're a private eye, it sort of gets to be a habit.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery