Ace Atkins > Quotes

“The first thing you want to do after being shot is make sure you are not shot again.”
― Ace Atkins

“For all his apologies, the convict Esau Davis was just a low-level toilet scrubber without the sense that God gave a goat. If she could get to a pistol or a shotgun or a hammer or a screwdriver, Caddy Colson would go all redneck on his ass and tear him a new asshole. That’s the way she was feeling, sitting there in the front seat of his shitty old truck, muffler rattling loose and wild, while he took Kleenex to his bleeding eye and talked about old times with Jamey Dixon like he thought they could still be friends after all this shit went down.”
― Ace Atkins, The Broken Places

“He kept most of his guns in a”
― Ace Atkins, The Lost Ones

“seemed to think it was a player for another team,” I said. “Maybe wants”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot

“As I worked, two young women in yoga pants and thin tank tops over sports bras walked past my table. I looked up and smiled. They pretended not to notice the rakish middle-aged man and his charming dog. Restraint.”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.’ ” “I figured you’d be in.”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby

“door. The ceiling was wire mesh, and I could see most of the space in the unit was wide open. There was a folding table set up in the center of the unit. One folding chair and several boxes off to one corner. Garner pulled out a big section of what looked to be poster board with several clamps on each corner. He set the boards down on the folding table and began to unsnap the clamps, finally pulling the top layer of the boards off and revealing a painting. The light wasn’t the best in”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic

“I sipped on my cocktail. An extra-large ice cube rattled the glass with a slice of orange and two Luxardo cherries. Good cherries could make or break a cocktail. Sometimes the amount I knew about cocktails astounded me.”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies

“took”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot

“I pull alongside him,” Hawk said. “And you roll down the window. Ask that motherfucker if he got any Grey Poupon.” “I was thinking the exact same thing,” I said. “Or perhaps we discreetly tail him hither and yon to find a good place for a proper introduction.”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me

“Jean made the seventies seem like some weird, mystical time, like a Redneck Camelot.”
― Ace Atkins, The Revelators

“we uncovered something darker and more sinister, a true meditation on today’s society. What do we value? Lies or facts. Posturing or morality.”
― Ace Atkins, The Shameless

“sfortuna”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic

“A sign above her read NO DOPE SMOKING”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Lullaby

“Like the man said”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby

“story,”
― Ace Atkins, The Sinners

“Never say anything that doesn’t improve the silence.” “You always keep to that?” Rosen said. “Yeah”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby

“So what does a trained investigator do when business is slow?” “Live deliberately and front only the essential aspects of life.”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot

“Westerns weren’t too popular on the rez,” Z said. “The good guys never win.” “Depends on your point of view.” “Only one right one, Kemosabe.”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Wonderland

“Talk slower,” I said. “I can’t understand you.”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Wonderland

“and said, “Yes, ma’am.”
― Ace Atkins, The Lost Ones

“Like working out, the first rule of success was just showing up.”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies

“The whole thing didn’t seem to bother Geraline but rattled poor Lang so bad that the little girl had to hold his cigarette while he lit it. She even told Lang he didn’t have the nerves for gangster work.”
― Ace Atkins, Infamous

“may”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me

“Kathryn nodded. “She was mean to Chingy.” “That goddamn rat shit on her Oriental rug.” “It was an ugly rug.”
― Ace Atkins, Infamous

“And Miss Lillie said the only folks offended by cussing are fat ladies in big hats who can't do their business on the toilet.”
― Ace Atkins, The Fallen

“The music reminded me of times I’d failed to recognize as being the best I’d ever known.”
― Ace Atkins, Dark End of the Street

“I have not forgotten about the REO Speedwagon incident. No more of that. Never.”
― Ace Atkins, The Revelators

“Why Some Animals Eat Their Young: A Survivor’s Guide to Motherhood.”
― Ace Atkins, Don't Let the Devil Ride

“Jon searched behind him and he”
― Ace Atkins, Dark End of the Street