155 Quotes by John Sandford

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you’re somehow set for life.

Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed.

Death had a strange effect on the left-behind people. Some found peace and a new life; some clutched the death to their breasts.

Felt the dark finger of hypocrisy stroking his soul.

Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean.

All right. I’ll keep it quiet.” “Attaboy. This thing is going to work out, Lucas. For us. It really shouldn’t matter whether we get the killer this week or in two weeks. What matters right now is to try to square up this election. Let’s focus on that: you do what you do, and let me try to get things straight with the voters.

He thought Emily Dickinson was perhaps the best writer America had ever produced; but on this day, heading east out of the Cities, then south down the river, he thought of how some of the writers, Poe and Hemingway in particular, used the weather to create the mood and reflect the meanings of their stories.

Focus on our ignorance.” She didn’t quite grasp the concept. She’d never been ignorant.

They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge,” Shrake said. “If it wasn’t murder, it was a really weird accident.