The Fifth Victim Quotes

“She’d worked with a number of “freelancers,” as they were sometimes called. Men—and they were almost always men—who liked to take matters into their own hands. They usually had good intentions, saving a life or solving a crime, but her job was not only to solve a crime, but to make sure it was prosecutable.”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“Commitment yields excellence, but only love yields transcendent performance.”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“to listen. “Bro,” he was saying, “here’s the thing about pay-to-win games, here’s how they get you.” He spoke loudly and with a notable lisp—his “s” sounding more like “th”—and his voice carried a joy that could lighten her spirit, no matter what kind of horrific set of crimes she’d worked on that day. “It’s a little thing called the dopamine response system. You get halfway through a game, riding little pings of joy. Then, suddenly, you’re stuck and you keep losing. For only ninety-nine cents you can continue and get to the next stage, but guess what happens then? Yup, you get stuck again. Drop another ninety-nine cents in the slot and… ping! You guessed it.”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“Only thing worse than a gobshite is an American gobshite.”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“Caesar thought he could control everything, be dictator in perpetuity, and we all know what happened to him.”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“the world is chaotic and dangerous and disordered and deeply imperfect.”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“think that one of these days… you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. - JD Salinger”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.  - Oscar Wilde”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - Henry David Thoreau”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“There’s a famous old text, Plato’s Republic. It’s about politics and philosophy and the best way to run a city, a state, a country. Now, I got a C+ in philosophy, but I do recall one takeaway. The best person to be in charge is the one who wants it least.”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - Henry David Thoreau We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.  - Oscar Wilde I think that one of these days… you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. - JD Salinger”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“Dogs aren’t animals,” Violet said, “they’re benevolent aliens sent here to bring humanity together.”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim