Gathering Prey Quotes

“argued that depression is a terrible word for the affliction. Should be called something like mindstorm. Still, Lucas’s intuition told him that mindstorms didn’t just show up: they needed something to chew on.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“depression was to be feared—and he could feel it sniffing around outside his door, looking for a way in.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“operations, trying to get things straight. He now had so much metal in his pelvis that he carried a TSA Notification Card just to get on an airplane. Despite the lingering disability, he’d gone back to full-time in April. He sat back down again. “I found Brett Givens working as a sign man for a real estate dealership over in Edina,” he said. “He drives a pickup, goes around putting up signs, or taking them down.” Lucas knew Givens: “Better than working at the chop shop.” “Yeah. Anyway, he says Cory is definitely back, because he saw him up in Cambridge last week, at Kenyon’s. He said Cory didn’t see him, because he ducked out—I think he was afraid that Cory might try to talk him into something. He likes the sign job.” “Givens didn’t know where Cory’s living?” “No. But he said there were random people in the bar who seemed to know Cory, like he might be a regular. He said Cory doesn’t look especially prosperous, so he might still have the safe. I thought I’d go up this afternoon, have a few beers.” “All right. Take care. Jenkins and Shrake are out of pocket. If you need backup, call me, and I’ll either come up or get Jon to send somebody.” Dale Cory was believed to be in possession of a safe that contained two million dollars in diamond jewelry, at wholesale prices, taken from a jewelry store in St. Paul”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“You know, I believe every word you’ve said, but I don’t need this. I’ve got six officers working for me full-time, plus four reserve deputies and a dog, and the dog got his feet cut up on broken glass yesterday and he’s out of it for a week. That means two guys for busy shifts, one guy for others. The dog has the most experience. Not counting the part-timers, he might even be the smartest. I include myself in that. I’ve never investigated anything more complicated than mailbox theft.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“THE DAY WAS PERFECT: low eighties, bluebird sky, the slightest touch of a breeze. If the Minnesota August lasted all year, nobody would live anywhere else.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“We ain’t in California no more,” Pilate said. “Every fuckin’ body up here’s got a gun. Even that old lady in the hamburger shop, shot Michelle.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“Impossible to know. The thing is, you take a fork in the road, it doesn’t always work out for the better . . . but sometimes it does. It must.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“Women had been on the verge of taking over the world—the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“Hey, people get killed from time to time, that’s just the way of the world, let’s not bust a budget about it . . .”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“Pilate screamed and pulled away from her and in that sliver of opportunity, Lucas shot him through the bridge of his nose. Then the screaming really got started.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“He spent more time laying pipe than laying tile, if you catch my drift.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“After a fast lunch, Lucas, Letty, and Skye went over to Swede Hollow Park to look for other travelers. They found three, sitting together, passing a joint, and Skye told them about Henry—one of the three knew him—and asked about Pilate. None of them knew him, or had heard about him.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“Let me tell you a few things about this place, the UP,” Laurent said, as they drove out of town in his Silverado pickup. “The UP is about the most remote place in the lower forty-eight—other”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“willing”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“he really liked running on the street, especially after a rain. He liked running through the odors of the night, through the air off the Mississippi,”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“Not a big intellectual, he’d nevertheless spent an entire summer reading an English translation of Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust’s À la recherché du temps perdu while knitting together the web of a major crack gang that spread over the Twin Cities. He couldn’t read French, but the book had made him want to learn the language; he’d just never had time.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“The kitchen appeared to have been built in the 1930s, and not cleaned since, smelling of bacon grease, fried eggs, and flatulence.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“patrolman,”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“Catrin Mattsson was doing all right. She was still screwed up and admitted it, but drugs and shrinks were moving her around to the place where she could live with herself. She’d become friends with his wife and daughter, and would occasionally drop around for dinner and a chat.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“It’s more important to look good, than to feel good,” Lucas said.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“computer chips.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“Let me tell you a few things about this place, the UP,” Laurent said, as they drove out of town in his Silverado pickup. “The UP is about the most remote place in the lower forty-eight—other people make the same claim, but they don’t know about the UP.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“a few times, and then pushed the screen door open. “Let’s go,” Stern said. As they crossed the porch”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“It’s more important to look good, than to feel good,” Lucas said. “What?” “Never mind. Before your time,” Lucas said.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“Juggalo”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“bleeding heavily, her eyes flat with”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“He looked terrific. Not that any women would notice: they’d be too busy talking to each other on their fucking cell phones.”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“wandered through the crowd, turning, but the lights, the painted”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“Scottsdale, Arizona, who”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey

“to TV people and sometimes these TV guys need to hustle a deal or hustle up some money, and Pilot’s women”
― John Sandford, Gathering Prey