Running Stop Signs Quotes

“People leave Los Angeles because the county is a breeding ground for violent murders. You stay and flourish in Los Angeles because the county is a hotbed for homicides.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“When I first got put in jail, I went in as a criminal. When I got released from state prison, I came out a hardened crook. You learn from other inmates how to pull off all sorts of illegal activity.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Ramona wore nothing but cherry-scented perfume. Stanley clad only in white cotton crew socks. What’s up with that? Maybe his feet were cold; she didn’t ask.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“So far Ramona hadn’t fixed a thing, other than her hunger to feel like a real woman.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Your reckless streak will be your best friend or your worst enemy.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“One never knows what sins lurk below the surface.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Men get themselves in trouble over the three Bs.  Booze, broads and bucks.  Your competition isn’t booze or broads. Your husband’s lover is bucks.  Your husband has a gambling addiction.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Melvin exited the hardware store, shuffled his feet into the darkness of the night that matched the blackness in his heart.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“This adultery crap had gotten monotonous. Natalie craved cold-blooded offenses to solve, use her brain, test her mettle. The grittier the better.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“An airplane hasn’t fallen out of the sky and landed on you, but in the PI world, you face risky business on a daily basis. Don’t let your guard down.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Determined, Natalie stood up, took a firm stance, saw the face she’d pieced together in her mind of bad boy Tobias Trent Rutherford. She fired five consecutive rounds; blew his face away five times.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Maybe it was Natalie’s round, mysterious cocoa colored eyes, the guts it took for a broad to chase crooks, that hooked him.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Unless you drive a Ferrari or a Rolls Royce, your new set of tires might look old to you now, in comparison to that Maserati.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs