The Girl Beneath the Sea Quotes

“Sometimes you don’t get to choose your struggles—they choose you.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“know for a fact that if we did as many drug searches of rich white schools as we do poor black ones, there’d be an outcry about our “lack of discretion.” It’s tricky on both sides.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“I had an economics professor who put it to our class bluntly: “When you restrict the supply of something, the price goes up. When the price goes up, you have more people working on more solutions to distribute the product. The market corrects for that.” According to him, the only two solutions that dramatically affect the price of an illegal commodity are decriminalizing it and easing restrictions or going the opposite direction and making sale and possession capital offenses. He claimed that educating the public on the dangers had only a nominal effect.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“Ever check the back of a pack of cigarettes? Who makes sure that nicotine is the only thing killing you? The same people collecting a dollar on every pack. The same government that spends more money on advertising the lottery among low-income populations with poor math skills than promoting adult education.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“Tri-acetone tri-peroxide. TATP.” “Like plastic explosive?” I ask.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“One of his best techniques was buying off the clerks that handled the procedural work for judges. We found numerous examples of major cases that were dismissed or postponed because a clerk lost evidence or changed filings, creating procedural errors.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“I hate myself for how much this grudging nod of respect means to me. But it does mean something . . . How do assholes make us care what they think?”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“You do the best you can, then you find something else that needs your attention. Every now and then, you make a difference.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“Cardiff thinks I’m tied up with them? I’ve half a mind to tell him to go fuck himself right now. Fortunately, the rational side of my brain keeps me from going all McPherson on him. I take a slow breath and put the regulator back in my mouth as I slip under the waves”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“CIA hired dirtbags to drop guns into South America. Those same dirtbags used their planes and contacts to bring cocaine back. It’s not the same as saying the CIA controlled the drug trade, but it had the same effect.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“Pelicans are simply an ungrateful mouth on wings.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“a hurricane.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“We figure that’s their”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“ladder.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea