Dirty White Boys Quotes

“The worst moment was always taps. It didn’t matter if the bugler played it well or poorly, in tune or out; there was something in the mournful ache of the music, and how it spoke of men dying before their time for something they only vaguely understood and being only vaguely appreciated by the people on whose behalf they died, that made it hurt so much.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dirty White Boys

“There is a paradox at the core of penology, and from it derives the thousand ills and afflictions of the prison system. It is that not only the worst of the young are sent to prison, but the best—that is, the proudest, the bravest, the most daring, the most enterprising and the most undefeated of the poor. There starts the horror. —Norman Mailer’s introduction to In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott No one knows what it’s like to be the bad man.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dirty White Boys

“No one knows what it’s like to be the bad man. —Peter Townsend, “Behind Blue Eyes”
― Stephen Hunter, Dirty White Boys

“partner, who”
― Stephen Hunter, Dirty White Boys

“helped”
― Stephen Hunter, Dirty White Boys

“when they did a headcount, learned that the three boys were gone, and began to search. Found a goddamn treasure chest of bodies—an old guard was found with his throat cut. A big black inmate named Willie Ralph Jefferson, Jr., stowed in a closet, with a bar of soap shoved down his craw. Odell’s work, probably. We learned quickly that a vending machine delivery guy whose last stop was the prison never came back. Now that’s bad because they were out over four hours before they were discovered missing, which means roadblocks and bloodhounds in McAlester area ain’t apt to turn up much.” He then narrated some colorful details of the escape, including a description of the van they purportedly made their getaway in, an eighty-nine Ford Econoline with HOSTESS PRODUCTS emblazoned on it, and the license number and a description of the poor missing driver, a Willard Jones. “What”
― Stephen Hunter, Dirty White Boys

“Richard, you got to be a man today.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dirty White Boys