This guy, and he alone, hunts close to the house for field mice and birds.
But to me, right now, this week anyway, Friday is great. Friday is beautiful.
What a repugnant, abhorrent, contemptible, deceitful, shifty, treacherous, insidious sonofabitch! She has never before been so full of adjectives.
Everyone living here will be dead soon. Everyone within a radius of miles. Miles and miles.
He knew what he didn’t know. Dorian Purcell, on the other hand, seemed not to know what he didn’t know.
There. I’d actually said it. I had told her she was beautiful, even though she might need a translator to have my meaning properly conveyed.
They feed on violence, but they feast on the despoiling of what is good.
To Carson, Hayden Eckman said, “The AG called me himself, a few hours ago. He made a persuasive argument.
I have had successes but also failures, because whatever else I might be, I am first and foremost human, and the tendency of our fallen kind is to fall again.
Parker frequently rides along with Lupo and Hamal when they are doing business.
Jim Jamison, like Ed, loved music and art and history.
The child who, far too young, saw anarchy in the world and feared it. The child who resented being born into such a disordered world, who saw chaos and yearned to find order in it.
Not every case requires him to kill, but when he does, he kills known murderers whom the law will not touch or the courts acquit for one reason or another. Even though he is supported by a formidable organization with deep resources, which remains a mystery to him, his fingerprints have been removed to protect him. It’s better to leave no prints behind.
The pistol is a Springfield Armory TRP-Pro .45ACP. Five-inch barrel. Seven-round magazine. A sound suppressor.
He looks back along the trail, in the direction from which he and the other foxes came.
Hearts and minds heal with time, which is a grace of the human condition.
A fear that makes you shrink from the prospect of any further such experience is matched by a compulsion to see more and to understand.
In Greek mythology, Gordius was a peasant who became king of Phrygia. He tied an extremely complicated knot – the famous Gordian knot – that no one could untie. When Alexander learned that.
They won’t be merely children, but demigods incorporating the diverse attributes of many species.
The world’s crawling with people who don’t respect anyone or anything, but we’re supposed to respect them, have compassion for the killers because they’ve been so poorly treated by life.