Dead of Winter Quotes

“NFL in general: Millionaire babies taking to the field to shuck, jive and juke for elderly billionaire plantation masters. The players who do take a stand by kneeling are vilified, nullified and ostracized. And fans continue to subsidize this cirque du soulless in some publicly funded, corporate-owned stadium with the audacity to charge ten dollars for a cup of warm beer, eight dollars for cold hot dogs and ninety dollars for jerseys bearing terminally concussed gridiron legends’ names and numbers.”
― Stephen Mack Jones, Dead of Winter

“...memory is almost always fragmentized, sanitized, demonized or wholly fictionalized by its constant travel companion and fickle lover, imagination.”
― Stephen Mack Jones, Dead of Winter

“Time was, all you needed for good sleuthing was snappy banter, a wink and a nod with the ladies, comfortable shoes, an assortment of fake business cards, a high tolerance for whiskey, a few extra bucks you could slip a bent maitre d' and maybe a Burberry trench coat with a "gat" stuffed in the deep pocket of thread-bare Brooks Brothers wool slacks.”
― Stephen Mack Jones, Dead of Winter

“Lives”
― Stephen Mack Jones, Dead of Winter

“Of course, you know you're freaking me out, right?" I said to Miss Jesse.
"Oh, son, I don't mean to." She laughed. "Give it another twenty years. Hardly anything will freak you out. You'll have seen all the really weird shit twice, three times by then. Especially the electoral damn college.”
― Stephen Mack Jones, Dead of Winter