“Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge.” He read the names off the”
“Important man, they say. Lot of important men in this world. But they die just like the rest of us. God’s way of making life fair.”
“Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions.”
“As had been the case with Gray, most snipers aimed for the brain as the gold standard of all possible killing shots. Sure, you pack the right ordnance and a torso hit would also likely be fatal, but the head shot was like a faithful dog in a professional killer’s world because it just never let you down.”
“Was revenge always wrong? Was righting an injustice outside the law never condonable?”
“Experience without cynicism was a sure sign your brain had dry-rotted and you hadn’t bothered to notice.”
“over, Brennan stared at them, his face”
“Tyree explained, “This man attacked a guard barely”
“his former boss at CIA, Simpson had still been sitting in death, only with him instead of a car seat it was a ladder-back chair in the kitchen that was now all mottled with the dead man’s blood. The shot had come from the unfinished chunk of construction across the street. The hour of execution—for”
“Sheep follow blindly. We’re not supposed to be sheep.”
“Some things never change,” said Abby wearily. “Boys never grow up, they just get bigger with more hair and people start calling them men.”
“She’d said nothing about keeping this a secret, but I knew I would never mention it to my mother or my father or anyone. I was too young to know that talking about it is exactly what I should have done.”
“One Choice, Breaks free of his past
One Choice, Embraces his future
One Choice, Exposes the dangers
One Choice, Changes him- forever
One Choice will free him”
“New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him on a daily basis during that jittery first year that it didn't really give a goddamn whether he sank or swam.
He liked its selfishness and its generosity and its propensity for flipping the bird to the rest of the world.”
“It is idle to hope for the enforcement of a law where nineteen-twentieths of the people do not believe in the justice of its provisions.”
“Just understand that the end began long ago
We got here just in time
Look
All the squares in the sidewalks were already there
All these strangers have more money than you do
All the good riffs have been taken
And everyone is so scared
Murder is commonplace
I don't even flinch at the gunshots outside my window
I feel lonely without them”
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