A Time to Scatter Stones Quotes

“AGES AGO, WHEN THEY swore me in as a NYPD cop, I wore a uniform I’d bought at Jonas Rathburn & Sons, a cop shop around the corner from the old Centre Street headquarters. Over the years I picked up other gear there—handcuffs, a Kevlar vest, a nightstick to replace the one that disappeared one”
― Lawrence Block, A Time to Scatter Stones: A Matthew Scudder Novella

“And I gather they did.” “What is it Mehitabel always says? In archy and mehitabel? ‘There’s life in the old dame yet.’ ” “And she said that?” “What she said, word for word, was ‘So I took him into the bedroom and fucked his brains out.”
― Lawrence Block, A Time to Scatter Stones: A Matthew Scudder Novella