Ed Duncan > Quotes

“There was something both unreal and unseemly about a grown man, with a law degree to boot, fighting in the street with two teenagers, But this is what it had come to.”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw

“A job is a job. It's not who you are”
― Ed Duncan, Pigeon-Blood Red

“What they learned would have deterred most men, but there were two kinds of men who, under the circumstances, refuse to be deterred: Men who were too dumb to appreciate the danger they faced and men who were too foolhardy to care.”
― Ed Duncan, Rico Stays

“He told himself that there must be a baser instinct in all of us and that in some people it lived close to the surface but that in others it was buried deep in the soul.”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw

“My father used to say no matter how far you travel. you can never change where you came from. I was so damned angry back there that for a while I almost forgot where I came from.”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw

“His motto was: all things being equal, tackle the hardest job first. That way, whatever is left will always be easier and, therefore, relatively speaking, something to look forward to.”
― Ed Duncan, Rico Stays

“One rule I live by is I never threaten to do somethin' I'm not prepared to do if I hafta.”
― Ed Duncan, Rico Stays

“Friends can make you weak and they can get you killed”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw

“Please, no psychoanalysis,' Rico said. 'What I do is what I do. I'm good at it. I like it and I got scruples - not your kind maybe - but my own, which suits me fine.”
― Ed Duncan, Rico Stays

“After you waste your own father, it's not hard anymore," he said.”
― Ed Duncan, Rico Stays

“And I was trying to protect me. It didn't have to come to that. He's lucky he was harmless.' 'What are you talking about? If he was so harmless, why did you practically kill him?' 'Because that's what harmless guys get. Dangerous guys get something else.”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw

“He and Jerry had worked together and sometimes taken lives together. They both knew their roles were not immutable. They were the hunters today, but they could be the prey tomorrow”
― Ed Duncan, The Last Straw

“It’s always been said that you should write what you know. I may not have been on the run from an underworld hitman, but I do know law and I’m excited to be able to use that knowledge creatively as well as professionally.”
― Ed Duncan

“Counselor, you and I are alike in some small ways. I like words and I like jazz, for instance, and tonight I found out we both like the same kind of food. I think we both keep our word and we both pay our debts. But I'm sure none of those similarities are what make Evelyn here a little nervous." He turned to her and this time a hint of a smile played at the corners of his mouth. "Evelyn, all I can say is I am what I am. I make no excuses. But that's me, not him.”
― Ed Duncan, Rico Stays