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

“story,”
― Ace Atkins, The Sinners

“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

“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

“Most folks didn’t like Skinner. And those who did called him an acquired taste. Like sardines. Or the music of Jim Nabors.”
― Ace Atkins, The Revelators

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

“I returned with sore legs back to my seat on the steps. I spent the next fifteen minutes watching women of all ages, sizes, and colors walk past me. I liked the way most women walked. I liked the way they dressed. And talked and smelled. I was pretty damn sure I was a fan of women in general. Did this make me a sexist or a feminist? Or somewhere in between.”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies

“up in bed, but there they were, he and Maggie, twisted under a white sheet trying to catch their breath. The topic of conversation hadn’t been all that sexy, Quinn leaving the late shift that morning, carrying the news of the forensics on the girl they found out at the Pennington property. Maggie had dropped off Brandon at school, still dressed in sweatpants and a T-shirt, drinking coffee on the porch when he got back to the farmhouse. He sat on the porch with her and laid out all of it. The girl was a teen or in her early twenties, buried at least twenty”
― Ace Atkins, The Shameless

“In the doorframe stood Gus T. Jones and another old man, carrying a six-shooter. Jones looked at the scene, his mouth downturned like it was the sorriest goddamn thing he’d ever witnessed. He shook his head with pity for all the weakness in the world, removed his hat, and said, “I sure hope we’re not interrupting anything.”
― Ace Atkins, Infamous

“45-millimeter bullet,”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby

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

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

“The Kid made a pass at Vi,” Miller said, staring straight ahead. His blue eyes like ice. “He told her he’d like to place his pecker right between her titties and ride her like a mule.” “The Kid said that?” Harvey asked, lighting up a Chesterfield and fanning out the match. “I don’t even know what that means. ‘Like a mule’?”
― Ace Atkins, Infamous

“I stood and filled a pot with water to boil. I’d had red beans with andouille sausage simmering in a Crock-Pot all day. I added rice to the water when it boiled, then I started to chop green peppers and onions. My chopping was quick but masterly. I placed a baguette from the Flour Bakery in the oven. I opened a second bottle of Abita, interspersing sips of beer with a glass of water. I pulled out some plates and opened a bottle of sauvignon blanc for Susan. I put an old Louis Jordan album on the turntable. “While you slave over the stove, I’ll freshen up,” she said. “A truly modern relationship.” “Would you rather me cook?” “We each have our talents.”
― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Kickback

“Watch your ass, but protect your heart.”
― Ace Atkins, The Fallen