The Night Crew Quotes

“They could rename this town shithole and be accused of putting on airs.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“Katherine is a lawyer, as I said, and she doesn’t lie; the truth, however, after it passes through her lips can be unrecognizable.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“Unlike magnets, opposites do not necessarily attract; sometimes they merely bash one another to death.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“The lady in the latrine, Julie DuBois, and I were on our first date after three weeks of shameless flirting. I’m about forty, Julie’s about thirty—a PhD in English lit, a professor at American University, learned, tenured, brilliant, blonde, blue-eyed—and, not that it matters, also quite attractive. I had been looking forward to this date for a week; I really wanted to get Julie’s take on Marcel Proust’s persistent use of subordinate clauses, a literary mystery I can never seem to get out of my mind—and yes, Julie was having trouble believing that, too. But men who date women for their looks alone are pigs.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“So I nodded, which Fred took as an indication to continue. “Everything in the theater and the army was in chaos. Iraq exploded in violence. I was the deputy commandant at the Castle, and got overnight orders to proceed to Iraq on the next flight.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“doting, the guy on the sideline at”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“don’t”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“I recalled the old saw about why reporters always whistle when they are on the toilet; it’s the only way they can remember which end to wipe.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“appeared on Fox News as a military analyst, and this is”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“I stepped over toys and broken furniture and bits and parts of machinery until I entered what was supposed to be a living room, though it looked more like a storage bin for chaos.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“I wanted to shake her awake and ask what she saw in Mr. Moneybags. But having now met him, he was everything most women dream of—handsome, filthy rich, smart, filthy rich, principled, filthy rich, and with a very pleasant personality.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“Predictably, Katherine’s car was a leased Toyota Prius, what they call a hybrid, and, though I consider myself as sensitive to the assassination of our environment as anybody, Sean Drummond was not the least bit happy with this choice. The car didn’t even require a key to get started, just this stupid button you push, then you can’t even hear the engine, so after the fifth time I punched the button, Katherine said, “Stop that, Sean. The damned car is already started.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“Guilt is a relative term, as are fairness, justice, and punishment.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“enter.” “This is a joke, right?”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“When I see a nail, I reach for a hammer. They study the nail and obsess over whether it might actually be, or could possibly be turned into, a bolt or a screw, and then they try playing mind games. As often as not, the nail screws them.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew

“The army has enough regulations that even Mother Teresa was guilty of something.”
― Brian Haig, The Night Crew