The Reckoning Quotes

“Helga, we need to talk. There's something you've got to know about."

"You sound so serious, Lemon."

"I am, Helga. Deadly serious."

"Okay. I will be right over. Stay nude.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Reckoning

“Helga Sigrid was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, and still had an accent right out of Wagner. She was almost as tall as he was, and as Nordic as it was possible to get without disappearing altogether whenever the sun came out.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Reckoning

“Lemon Featherlight was an ex-Marine, a full-blood Mayaimi Indian, irritatingly handsome in a piratical sort of way, a condition even more grating because all the women loved him, and made even moreso because he was actually a decent guy, and nobody needed that.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Reckoning

“You're gonna have to explain all this shit to me, Frank. You don't just tell a guy he's dead and get him to throw a stiff into the river for you and then we fuck off for donuts.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Reckoning