John Lescroart > Quotes

“The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.”
― John Lescroart, A Plague of Secrets

“So Donald Trump and Sarah Palin are both drowning in the pool right in front of you, and you know there’s only going to be a minute or two before one or both of them goes under. Here’s the question: What kind of sandwich do you make?”
― John Lescroart, Fatal

“You ever think that life is something that happens and that you’re not ever completely prepared for?”
― John Lescroart, The Vig

“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. —Ken Keyes, Jr.”
― John Lescroart, The Fall

“And then Ginny jumping in with, “So Donald Trump and Sarah Palin are both drowning in the pool right in front of you, and you know there’s only going to be a minute or two before one or both of them goes under. Here’s the question: What kind of sandwich do you make?”
― John Lescroart, Fatal

“Nothing spells trouble like two drunk cowboys with a rocket launcher.”
― John Lescroart, Poison

“What was so tough, you had to get all worked up over them? He didn’t get it. You just did your job, you were faithful to your wife, you stuck by your friends. That was it.”
― John Lescroart, Dead Irish

“In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.”
― John Lescroart

“Julius Caesar: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries.” He thought”
― John Lescroart, The Rule of Law

“New opportunities abound if we but have the courage to face them.”
― John Lescroart, The Oath

“up all morning; it would not be unheard”
― John Lescroart, Fatal

“the evidence is massaged or explained to fit a set of predetermined perceptions.”
― John Lescroart, A Plague of Secrets

“And you know what genius is, Mose? It's endless attention to detail.”
― John Lescroart, The Vig

“even knew where she’d lived. So”
― John Lescroart, Damage

“once known sprang to his mind: The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. It”
― John Lescroart, A Plague of Secrets

“just before Glitsky was about to take the stand for”
― John Lescroart, The Fall

“are not punished for their sins, but by”
― John Lescroart, A Plague of Secrets

“And Matt started crying?”
― John Lescroart, The 13th Juror

“rearing”
― John Lescroart, The Keeper

“At the hospital. You’ve told me you need people with a motive to have killed Markham, but you don’t know of anyone else except your client, so all right, let’s assume for the moment that it’s not him, although that continues to make me uncomfortable as hell, except still, what you need, even beyond motive, is presence, by which I mean that whoever it was had to be there and that brings us back around full circle.” “I’ll give you a dollar if you can diagram that last sentence for me.”
― John Lescroart, The Oath

“And even though Glitsky thought the official policy on miscreants in San Francisco was “Three strikes and you’re misunderstood,”
― John Lescroart, Guilt

“Adding to that charm (as well as to the general air of funkiness), a large and ancient library desk took up almost half the lobby, and on it, overflowing, were dozens of brochures explaining CASA’s work, announcements about classes and self-improvement programs, volunteer guidelines, knickknacks, craftsman bowls, several different magazines, and other specialty”
― John Lescroart, The Fall

“embrace.”
― John Lescroart, The Oath

“Bullshit. Your life?” Rush said sarcastically. “Bullshit. If I lose, I go to prison. If you lose, you go to lunch.”
― John Lescroart, The Missing Piece

“manslaughter, not murder.”
― John Lescroart, The Fall

“Max Byrd’s Grant.”
― John Lescroart, The Oath

“Pullios stopped in the door.”
― John Lescroart, Hard Evidence

“raped her while he was living with them.”
― John Lescroart, The Fall

“No reason,”
― John Lescroart, The First Law

“It was the other man Hardy had noticed in the gallery. Reasonably good-looking, somewhat burly even in his tailored suit, Lightner sported a well-trimmed red beard under a head of dark brown hair. It was a striking combination that Hardy thought might come out of a bottle.”
― John Lescroart, The 13th Juror