170 Quotes About Crime-thriller

It's only after you've lost everything that we're free to do anything.--Chuck Palahniuk

But I couldn’t help thinking—Who the hell eats bats? Probably nothing.

Comfort took a distant second to fashion where footwear was concerned. Unless of course, one was fleeing!

If I were a lesbian, I’d probably be one of those lipstick lesbians, which I of course had in my pocket for touch-ups later.

I sat in my brown-belted gi at the painted metal table outside of Einstein’s and Peet’s with Mr. Ho, my Kenpo Karate instructor in his black-belted gi, and my bronze, canine psychologist, wearing his/her Lacoste eyeglasses.

The Marshal didn’t bother knocking. What he observed was not unexpected, but still shocking. The sequoia of a man, seven feet tall and 360 hard-packed pounds of him, lay with back curled forward, limbs folded in front of his body, on the living room floor, moaning, with periodic sharp intakes of breath accentuating his spiritual desolation. 

Yet, all armor—from a lobster’s shell to a Navy SEAL’sflak jacket—ultimately reveals the same truth. All armor highlightsvulnerability. It trumpets the fact that below that hard exterior liesan interior that is soft, fragile, and in need of protection.

Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.

His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the booth clear off the floor, drop it down again. A pin-wheel of vacancy appeared in the glass, flinging off shards and slivers.