The Neon Lawyer Quotes

“Secrets had the power to make people stick together against the rest of the world. On”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“That’s all that matters—how well you can walk through flames.” They”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“That was how powerful judges were, Brigham thought. That they could leave a hundred people at any time and the people would just have to wait for them.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“I think everyone makes mistakes because we’re human. There’s no handbook on life. We make blunders along the way.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“eat-what-you-kill place.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“That’s all that matters—how well you can walk through”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“guns, most of them openly in holsters, but she’d never seen the need.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“Night fell quickly, and Brigham sat at home on his couch and stared at the television screen. He hadn’t gone back to the office after his loss that morning. He couldn’t face Tommy. The man had trusted him, and Brigham had failed him on his first try. Tomorrow, he would go back to the school and beg for his old job back”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“The entire fabric of civilization is held together by this one principle: we let the law determine justice, not an individual.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“Being a lawyer’s a lotta fun. You get to fuck the government every now and again. You like fucking the government?” “Um, well, I’ve never actually done it. But I’d like to.” “Excellent. Come outside with me.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“At his best, man is the noblest of animals. Separated from law and justice, he is the worst. —Aristotle”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“The law wasn’t a piece of wood to be carved by cutting away pieces. It was a house that you built piece by piece, from the ground up.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“If people gave as soon as they earned, it would keep them humble, as his mother had told him at least once a week.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“Secrets had the power to make people stick together against the rest of the world.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“never ask a question he didn’t know the answer to. At”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“This book is based on a true story, and I’ve recalled facts and events as best as I remember them.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“When defense counsel makes a motion for entrapment, the burden then shifts to them to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that entrapment did in fact occur.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“For entrapment, we have to show that the defendant was enticed or encouraged into doing something the defendant would not have otherwise done.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“The law wasn’t a piece of wood to be carved by cutting away pieces. It was a house that you built piece by piece, from the ground up. The foundation had to be laid.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“a preliminary hearing. It’s kind of like a miniature trial. The”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“The DA’s office was in a tall glass-and-chrome building across the street from a Thai food restaurant and a gym. Kitty-corner from it was another office building filled with law firms and stock brokerages. Brigham rushed into the building. He’d gotten there with three minutes to spare. Molly was sitting in a lounge chair doing something on her phone. She saw him and rose.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“That’s all that matters—how well you can walk through flames.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer