The Man Who Came Uptown Quotes

“An hour past dawn, the Charger came down the hill, followed by a boxy Jeep with oversize tires and a Chevy half-ton truck.

'That's them,' said Ornazian

'The New Klansmen.'

'More like wannabe Nazis.'

'What's the difference?'

'Their playbook is Mein Kampf. They carved the number fourteen into the Weitzmans' dining-room table.'

'And that means what?'

'Fourteen words. The white-nationalist slogan. I am a coward and a loser and I blame my failure on other people.'

Ward counted on his fingers. 'That's fifteen words.'

'See? These guys could fuck up a wet dream. Let's go to their house.”
― George P. Pelecanos, The Man Who Came Uptown

“Boy could fuck up a birthday party at the Chuck E. Cheese.”
― George P. Pelecanos, The Man Who Came Uptown

“It’s the forgetting that allows trash like them to come back.”
― George Pelecanos, The Man Who Came Uptown