Closure Quotes

“We just don’t have command of the process anymore. The process owns us now. You, me, everyone who follows the laws, we’re now at a disadvantage to those who don’t. What the hell happened? What happened to us? This country is eating itself.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“In the United States of America, State and Federal
prisons combined hold a total of 1,470,045 prisoners.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“When injustice becomes law,
rebellion becomes duty. —Benjamin Franklin, 1759”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“Special Agent Jack Randall already felt the headache coming on. The call from his office had arrived about the same time as the story had aired on CNN.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“the first page as he brushed his teeth. T. Carlton Addicot, huh? Not his favorite guy. Everyone he knew at the bureau had heard of him. Jack recalled what he had read on the man; a big money tort lawyer. Sued big companies for anything he could think of, claiming to do so on behalf of the victims. Never mind that he raked in more than all the victims combined. Word was he had a partner in every state and flew around in his own Gulfstream jet, litigating. His specialty was medical companies.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“Whitcomb.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“with the internal paddles. It”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“He trailed off.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“letting his jaw drop open to improve his hearing.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“Something he was slowly coming to terms with. The frequent pain in his gut was increasing in intensity. The fatigue was more and more present. He had a feeling this visit was not going to be a good one. He”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“The chair wasn’t helping. You were supposed to stay awake, yet they put you in a nice recliner for the duration. Sam couldn’t decide if it fit the definition of irony, but he doubted it was far off. Thinking”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“we can make them less lethal. The study states it’s not the fact that they are violent; it’s the fact that they have easy access to handguns when they decide to be violent. The guns don’t kill people, people kill people line is crap and you know it. The truth is, people without guns injure people, and people with guns kill them.” Senator”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“Besides, you aren’t going to stop people who are prone to violence just by taking away their guns.” “No we can’t, but we can make them less lethal. The study states it’s not the fact that they are violent; it’s the fact that they have easy access to handguns when they decide to be violent. The guns don’t kill people, people kill people line is crap and you know it. The truth is, people without guns injure people, and people with guns kill them.” Senator”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“We have around 65 million handguns in this country, with a death rate of 13.7 per 100,000. That’s three times the rate of Canada. On top of the homicides, this also shows that handguns are used nine out of ten times in robbery, assault and rape. The American people are tired of all these loophole-filled laws,”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“Why the man had to have an entourage of ten people everywhere he went was beyond his scope of understanding. Most things about the Senator were.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“Life was good for T. Carlton Addicot, Tort lawyer.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“One of Florida’s cow ants walked across the ground in front of him. The things were huge, a good inch and a half long, orange and black with one nasty bite. Actually some kind of hornet, he remembered. Made him wonder if it was indeed sweat he felt crawling down his back.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“The state of Alabama holds 29,253 inmates in its prisons. Approximately 20,000 are repeat offenders.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“He ignored the sweat running down his face and focused through the scope on a young girl in her BMW. He could clearly see the diamond earrings in her ears;”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“violate the local noise ordinance. The closest one was still three acres away over a low rise that served to block any view of him. He hoped his target wasn’t early”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“permission”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“would have”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“refuses to change the event. They believe the sheriff is making up the death threats in an effort to get them to cancel. Evidently, they are either that stupid or just used to death threats. Anyway, the locals are stepping up security in the surrounding buildings. The police presence is already at the maximum the sheriff can deploy. I’ve added the Bureau’s help. A few dog teams have been added at the entry”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“Prisons have become educational institutes that produce better, smarter criminals.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“This costs the victims’ closure, and the taxpayers millions.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“Criminals who are jailed learn from their fellow criminals how to manipulate the courts to a standstill with no formal legal training.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“The plea bargain, reduced sentencing, and early release have become the norm.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“The goal of the lawyer is no longer to see justice prevail, or to make the punishment fit the crime.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“The shot was not a difficult one; two hundred meters through some hardwoods according to his rangefinder.”
― Randall Wood, Closure

“He ignored the sweat running down his face and focused through the scope on a young girl in her BMW.”
― Randall Wood, Closure