Bad News Quotes

“Every known religion,” Murch went on, shucking out of his coat, “has some big-deal event or celebration or thing in December, and every known ethnic, too, and for every known religion and every known ethnic, there’s three other blocks of stores on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn that has everything especially for them, and in December on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, every known religion and every known ethnic is shopping, and not one in a million of those people, that came here from thousands of places that you don’t even know about, ever learned how to drive.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Bad News

“Everything goes smoothly,” Dortmunder repeated in a quiet and contemplative way, as though wondering what those pretty-sounding words meant.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Bad News

“John Dortmunder was a man on whom the sun shone only when he needed darkness.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Bad News

“Fitzroy wouldn’t”
― Donald E. Westlake, Bad News