Deadline Quotes

“If the AG had been a lightbulb instead of a lawyer, he would have been about a twenty-watt.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“D. Wayne Sharf slid across Winky Butterfield’s pasture like a greased weasel headed for a chicken house.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“Got Hollow Points?” Another said: “Heavily Armed . . . and easily pissed.” A third one: “Point and Click . . . means you’re out of ammo.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“Coyotes don’t eat dachshunds,” Johnson said. “Dachshunds were bred to go down badger tunnels and drag the badgers out by their ass. A good-sized dachshund could weigh thirty pounds and has jaws like a crocodile. Old Dixie would straight-out fuck up a coyote.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“They didn’t talk for a while. Johnson popped the top on the second beer, took a long swig, then tossed the nearly full can over his shoulder and down the hill. “Good-bye, old friend,” he said. “I’ll believe it a year from now,” Virgil said. Johnson: “Say, this whole stop-drinking thing . . . it doesn’t include margaritas, does it?” —”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“I was skateboarding on the levee and lost my edges,” she said. “You were skateboarding?” She turned and looked at him and shook her head in exasperation: “No, you dummy, I fell. On the ice. On the sidewalk. Like old people do.” Virgil: “Oh.” She shook her head again. “Jesus wept.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“His ex-wife, Truly, whom he still occasionally visited, wore various pieces of camo, depending on daily fashion demands—more at Walmart, less at Target.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“It’s darker than a black cat’s ass in a coal mine, when you get back there.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“I mean, the guy could fall in a barrel of titties and come out suckin’ his thumb.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“Coyotes don’t eat dachshunds,” Johnson said. “Dachshunds were bred to go down badger tunnels and drag the badgers out by their ass. A good-sized dachshund could weigh thirty pounds and has jaws like a crocodile. Old Dixie would straight-out fuck up a coyote.” “Didn’t know that,” Virgil said. —”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“vigorous prosecution wouldn’t piss off anybody critical, and would generally show up the Republicans as the pack of thieving, money-gouging, scheming hyenas that all true-blue Americans knew them to be.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“maintenance”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“As it happened, the Buchanan County school district presented a perfect chance to protect the public: it largely voted Republican, so, since the AG was a Democrat, a vigorous prosecution wouldn’t piss off anybody critical, and would generally show up the Republicans as the pack of thieving, money-gouging, scheming hyenas that all true-blue Americans knew them to be. That was the general idea; the actual words would be repackaged into something much softer and much, much more hypocritical.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“the guy could fall in a barrel of titties and come out suckin’ his thumb.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“now”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“She sounded like a blackboard being run through a table saw.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“but you ask anybody who’s been to jail, and they’ll tell you—a little is way, way better than a lot. Way better.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“One of the trucks he passed in the parking lot had a bumper sticker that asked, “Got Hollow Points?” Another said: “Heavily Armed . . . and easily pissed.” A third one: “Point and Click . . . means you’re out of ammo.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“Pacific time was two hours ahead of Central time,”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“world.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“cabin, they could hear”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“looking back at him,”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“Oh, bullshit,” Jenkins said. “You do it because you like it, because you get that feeling in your balls like you’re in a falling elevator, and you like it. We all like it. We get all grim and warriored-up about it, but the bottom line is, we like it.” “That’s somewhat true,” Shrake admitted. “That’s why Davenport does it: it’s better than money,” Jenkins said. “You guys bum me out sometimes,” Virgil said.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“goat-fuck tomorrow,”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“you’ll get back to your trucks. Some of those people, you”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“JENKINS AND VIRGIL walked back up the valley to the Ruff house, and found Muddy inside, tootling on a black electric guitar, a complex”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“BACK IN THE TRUCK Virgil said, “Jesus, I thought I’d stepped into old home week.” “Hey, Dog Butt is a good band,” Johnson said. “Tight. They got two lead singers, a man and a woman, taking turns, and honest to God, you can boogey your ass off.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“five,” Virgil said. He pulled the flash out of its bag.”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“was crooked as a sidewinder rattlesnake. “So what”
― John Sandford, Deadline

“You got me all choked up, Johnson,” Virgil said. “I’ll make a note about it, you know, needing to kill somebody.”
― John Sandford, Deadline