Holy Ghost Quotes

“Fuck golf anyway. Stupid goddamn game, chasing a ball around a perfectly good cow pasture.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“The nun said, “I can forgive the language. I’m not sure I can forgive your making an obscene gesture at your mother.” “Ya gotta know her,” Holland said. “If you knew her, you’d give her the finger, too.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“You gotta try harder to be kind, man. We’re all trapped on this earth together.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“bumper sticker said “I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“If it’s criminal, it’s either stupid or crazy. Stupid people usually have guns, crazy people always do. In a choice between stupid and crazy, first investigate the stupid, because stupid is more common than crazy. In many cases, stupid is also more dangerous than crazy. You could”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“John Connolly novel, Every Dead Thing,”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“When I told my father I wasn't going to be a minister of any kind, he said that I should never take cover in life, that I should stand out in the wind. Feel it. I'm trying to do that.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“made the nostrils seize up. Chicken shit had an unpleasant edge, like when damp pinfeathers were scorched off a roaster’s carcass; horse shit, on the other hand, was almost sweet, if not actually cheerful. He thought about it as the car rolled through a swampy smell and decided he might have been working out in the countryside a tad too long, now that he had begun comparing and contrasting the different varieties of livestock odors. He switched to contemplating the appearance of the Blessed Virgin. Virgil’s father was a Lutheran minister, and Virgil had gone to church almost every Sunday and Wednesday from the time he’d been”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“Virgil was getting the impression that the group lacked cohesiveness.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“You actually don’t need to go out to the porn sites.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“most old farmhouses were built like that.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“I’m so looking forward to this—it’s an adventure. I’m praying that the kid’s healthy, that’s all. Boy, girl, I don’t care.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“Motherfucker who’d lock a live dog down in the basement,” Zimmer said. “I don’t think Glen would do that if he decided to kill himself. He’d at least let the dog outside. If Glen was murdered . . . Well, I can understand shooting somebody, but why would you do that to a dog?”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“I’ll tell you something, Skinner. Anybody who snipes innocent people is seriously unbalanced even if he believes he has a reason,” Virgil said. “Most people won’t even shoplift for fear of getting caught. Shooting people? You’re dealing with a nut even if there’s a payoff somewhere.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“They got three cooks there; we call them Hepatitis A, B, and C. That burger’s gonna hit the bottom of the bucket in one piece, if you know what I mean.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“Osborne said. “I miss Mom, though. That didn’t have to happen. The guy who killed her . . . If I knew who it was, I’d think about killing him myself.” “Not what you usually want to tell a couple of cops,” Jenkins said. “Now if he gets run over by a car, people are going to be looking at your front bumper.” “Okay, so I’ll back over him,” Osborne said.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“Dunno, but my gut says we’re onto something, and my gut doesn’t lie,” Shrake said. “There was that time with that Rudolph chick,” Jenkins suggested. “That’s because my dick overruled my gut, but my gut was telling me the truth,” Shrake said. “What can I tell you?”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“If it’s criminal, it’s either stupid or crazy. Stupid people usually have guns, crazy people always do. In a choice between stupid and crazy, first investigate the stupid, because stupid is more common than crazy. In many cases, stupid is also more dangerous than crazy. You could sometimes talk to crazy, but there’s no dealing with stupid. None of the above is always true.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“So, you like guns a lot. If you had to give up guns or women, which would you do?” Ford peered at Virgil, then said, “Fake question. You wouldn’t have to give up women unless they all died off, and that ain’t gonna happen. On the other hand, when the government starts kicking in the repressive measures—and that’s just a matter of time—IMHO, you’re gonna need the guns. I’d say, sure, women are important, but guns are fundamental. You know, our Constitution doesn’t even mention women, but it does mention our right to bear arms.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“Ford regarded him levelly for five seconds or so, then said, “Now you’re fuckin’ with me. You think I’m goofy, too. I admit, it could turn out that way. New generation—could be all sweetness and light. That’s not the way I see it, though. A rising tide of mean little fascist rats, is what I see.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“Holland’s mom would get pissed. She owns Mom’s Cafe.” “She sure doesn’t need the competition,” Virgil said. “I ate the worst cheeseburger of my life there about five minutes ago.” Skinner winced, and said, “I wouldn’t wander too far from a toilet. They got three cooks there; we call them Hepatitis A, B, and C. That burger’s gonna hit the bottom of the bucket in one piece, if you know what I mean.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“On the animal side, there were pigs and cows and some riding horses. One interesting thing about spring, Virgil thought, especially a wet one, was how you could identify the livestock without ever seeing them. Cow shit was a definite stink, but a tolerable one. Pig shit, on the other hand, wasn’t tolerable: it had a hard ammonia overtone that made the nostrils seize up. Chicken shit had an unpleasant edge, like when damp pinfeathers were scorched off a roaster’s carcass; horse shit, on the other hand, was almost sweet, if not actually cheerful.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“To the clothing, he added a pump shotgun and a box of shells. A Glock 9mm semiautomatic pistol went in his Tahoe’s gun safe with two extra magazines. If he needed more than fifty-one shots at somebody, he deserved to die.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“Virgil was a tall man, thin, athletic, with longish blond hair and an easy smile. He was wearing a “got mule?” T-shirt, purchased in the parking lot at a Gov’t Mule show a year earlier in Des Moines, an inky-blue corduroy sport coat, and bootcut blue jeans over cordovan cowboy boots. As an agent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, he should have been wearing a suit with a blue or white oxford cloth shirt, a dull but coordinated nylon necktie, and high-polished black wingtips. What the BCA didn’t know, he figured, couldn’t hurt him.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“You got your iPad?” “Does the Tin Man have a sheet metal cock?”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“that morning, and a half”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“Sherlock Holmes and that whole Holmes thing—that once you’ve eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, must be the truth. What Holmes never admitted was that there is a vast universe of the possible, and sorting through all the possibilities is often impossible.”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“bottom of the can when he pulled out three that he would bet had been shot with a .45. There were other”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“it. A message was written in purple ink:”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost