Heat Lightning Quotes

“....there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous.”
― John Sandford, The Devil's Code

“Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean.”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“Janey.

A problem. He liked her, but only for a couple of hours at a time.”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“Death had a strange effect on the left-behind people. Some found peace and a new life; some clutched the death to their breasts.”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“My problem with that is I don’t believe God cares what we do. Everything is equally relevant and irrelevant to God. A religion is nothing more than a political party organized around some guy’s moral views, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, like conventional political parties are organized around some guy’s economic views.”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“dumb-ass preachers on TV could think this could all be part of God’s Plan. God didn’t have a plan, Virgil believed. God had His limits, and one of them was, He didn’t always know what would happen; or if He did know, He didn’t care; or if He cared, He was constrained by His own logic and couldn’t do anything about death and destruction. Virgil believed that God was actually a part of a rolling wave front, hurtling into an unknown future; and that humans, animals and, possibly, trees and chinch bugs had souls that would rejoin God at death.”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“Owen had short brown hair with filaments of gray, and deep brown eyes. She’d never been a beautiful woman, but now she was getting a late-life revenge on her contemporaries who had been: she had porcelain-smooth skin, with a soft summer tan; slender face and arms, like a bike rider’s; an attractive square-chinned smile.”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“The general line seemed to be the same one that the government used against gun owners, with whom I began to sympathize for the first time. The argument ran like this: nobody needs these big powerful computers unless he or she intends to do something wrong. Sure, stockbrokers, accountants, and suits from Microsoft and Sun might have some reason to own them, but a kid from Wyoming? That kid has no reason to own anything more powerful than a Game Boy . . . Powerful computers are prima-facie evidence that they’re doing something wrong and un-American.”
― John Sandford, The Devil's Code

“She knows lots of people who do bad business, and not all of them are her friends, and not all of the places she goes to are good places for women to be after dark. That’s not sexism: it’s the simple reality of the redneck ghettos where she buys her tools.”
― John Sandford, The Devil's Code

“CNN had a story, but like a lot of CNN stuff, most of it seemed to have been garbled by a mentally challenged paranoiac;”
― John Sandford, The Devil's Code

“got to know quite a few politicians. They were a pretty lively bunch, no more or less corrupt than schoolteachers, newspaper reporters, cops, or doctors. Anyway, it didn’t take much exposure to politics for me to realize that there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous. But in the short run, if you find a guy on top of your hometown clock tower with a cheap Chinese semiauto assault-weapon lookalike, that guy will be one of Corbeil’s buddies, dreaming of black helicopters and socialist tanks massing on the Canadian border, preparing to pollute America’s vital fluids.”
― John Sandford, The Devil's Code

“It's about time you got here, you hunk."

He gave her a little squeeze an asked, "Why don't you run away with me?"

"Then you wouldn't have a job and I'd have to support you." Weather said.

"Then he'd be dead and you wouldn't have to support him," Davenport said.

"Still, couple good days at a Motel 6 in Mankato . . . might be worth it," Virgil said to her.

Davenport said, "Yeah it would be. When you're right, you're right.”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“He may have also envied the fact that his son was a cop, the preacher thought of himself as a man of peace, and he envied the man of action.

The son didn't envy the father. Virgil had been raised in a church and the problems his father dealt with, he thought, would have driven him crazy. It's relatively easy to solve a problem with a gun and a warrant and a prison, but what do you do about somebody who is unloved?”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“Iconcentrated on driving for a couple of minutes, getting us out of a pod of Texans headed up the freeway in what seemed to be a test of Chaos Theory: you sensed an order in their driving, but you couldn’t say exactly what it was. I could see the Toyota pickup at the head of the pack, like the lead dolphin.”
― John Sandford, The Devil's Code

“satellite view. “They could”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“The high Wisconsin bluffs on the St. Croix are such a dark green that in bright afternoon sunlight, they seem almost black.”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“Heart of Darkness”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“up by three metal desks, each with a computer”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“everything”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“chair and read a story in a four-year-old Cosmo about how women can keep their men interested by learning the latest in blow-job techniques—the techniques themselves were described blow by blow, so to speak, by a panel of successful New York advertising and media women. I was not only convinced, I was supportive.”
― John Sandford, The Devil's Code

“like an ink drop falling into a coal cellar.”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“legs”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning

“the points of view of a lot of people I’d opposed at the start. That the Vietnam War was a waste”
― John Sandford, Heat Lightning