McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3) Quotes

“A person steals off a company, person goes to jail. Company steals off a person – hey, that’s just business.”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“Places like this tried to strip away your humanity, make life into a dirty scrap for survival where man was set against man, race set against race, and it turned Bunny’s stomach. It did him good to remember that this was not the way it had to be.”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“Do any two words in the English language form a worse combo than “budget whorehouse”?”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“If the violence is the problem, how can violence be the answer?”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“Get to the root of most of the world’s problems, Mr McGarry, and I guarantee that you will find a man with what he is sure is a good idea.”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“Of course, as with anything, you couldn’t legislate for stupidity.”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“Whoever had said that if you expect the worst from people, you’ll never be disappointed definitely had a point. What they had failed to mention, though, was that you could still be incredibly irritated.”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“It’s just business,” repeated Bunny. “That’s the ‘I was just following orders’ of the twenty-first century.”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“The damage we do while trying to help.”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“Father Gabriel knew better than anyone how human lives were products of circumstance. All that separated Pocket from any of the kids sitting in a classroom at NYU was the hand dealt and cruel chance.”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“Father Gabriel moved the rosary beads around between his fingers and did his best to stifle a yawn. It had already been a very long day and it wasn’t anywhere near over.”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“Great. If nothing else, those two should make for an excellent reboot of The Odd Couple franchise.” “The what now?” Dionne sighed. “The Odd Couple,” she repeated. “It was a film? And a TV show, come to think of it.” She shook her head. “You really do make me feel old.” “Sorry,” said Zoya. “Hey, Dionne? What was it like in the good old days, when the internet ran off steam and the only way you could send an email was to print it out and staple it to a pigeon?”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“it was the notion that untrustworthy people, in her experience, put considerably more effort into presentation.”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“lay around like well-preserved corpses,”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)

“Alright there, Judgey McJudgeface, wind your neck in.”
― Caimh McDonnell, McGarry Stateside Deluxe (Books 1-3)