The Investigator Quotes

“Some people would say bullshit is the grease that gets people through life,” Weather said. “Other people,” Letty said. “Not me.”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“grew up with guns and I needed them. Most people don’t. All these high-capacity guns flashed by the nutcakes? They’re a disaster. If I had my way, there’d be no guns but single-shot hunting rifles and single-shot shotguns. You could do all the target shooting you want with those. You could hunt to your heart’s content. Of course, you’d actually have to learn how to hunt or how to hit a target, and most of those dimwits don’t want to be bothered.”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“There are more numb-nuts around here than in the Florida state legislature, which, believe me, was a whole passel of numb-nuts.”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“He glanced at her: “Sure. You guys must be really close.”

She was blunt: “Close enough to get your ass fired if you’re suggesting that Colles and I are sleeping together.”

“I wasn’t suggesting that,” he muttered, rapidly backing off.

“Try harder not to suggest it,” she said; her tone did everything but smear blood on the windshield.
(Page 16)”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“The thing that drew her to guns was their precision, lethality, and simplicity.”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“After she’d blocked the peephole, she went to her laptop and did a Google search on peephole intrusions—and learned that women were not only watched, but had actually been filmed through the peephole as they undressed inside their locked rooms. Yet another reason, Letty thought, that all women should be issued guns at birth.”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“Her father had warned Letty against going for rides with highway patrolmen. “When it comes to driving, they’re a little . . . out there, I guess you’d say. ‘Fast’ isn’t good enough for them.”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“phone, then picked it up and put it in”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“We see things as they are, we project out consequences of our actions, very pragmatically. We don’t stir in a lot of hope, we don’t turn blind eyes.”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“It’s like a fuckin’ nightmare,” Letty said. “One of those where you’re trying to find your school locker and you keep running from one to the next, and it’s never yours.”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“next”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“If I get my gun and you pat me on the ass. I’ll shoot you.” Letty said.
(Page 12)”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“but up in the northwest, have been talking to a hard-right”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“read this book about President Lyndon Johnson.” “Yeah?” Low had a hard time keeping up with her reading. He wasn’t a reader himself. “When Johnson started out in Congress, he got a lot of power right away. You know how?” “You tell me,” Low said. “He took over the committee that raised reelection funds for other congressmen. Before he did that, nobody bothered to raise money for other people, everybody did it for themselves. Johnson raised the big bucks and passed it out to people who’d boost him higher in Congress. It worked. Like he was only a congressman for a couple of terms and he was one of the most powerful people up there.”
― John Sandford, The Investigator

“Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous”
― John Sandford, The Investigator