Ian Loome > Quotes

“I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time.”
― L.H. Thomson, The Antique Hunters

“there’s something to be said for getting out and meeting people. It breeds empathy and is good for the soul.”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“You hang around bad people, bad things happen.”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“That almonds shouldn’t taste like bacon. That’s just weird, man.”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“a community does not depend on a religion to exist and to be supportive; it merely depends on the goodness and civility of its members.”
― L.H. Thomson, Buried in Benidorm

“Why isn’t here here?!”
― Ian Loome, Hard Country

“criminals were all derived from the same ethnicity – scumbag”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“you can come back and punch out guys whenever.”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“new”
― Ian Loome, Code Red

“Our motto: making you feel less lousy about your losses.”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“Nearly everyone here is Irish, or Italian or Russian. But everyone displays their Star Spangled Banner in some prominent spot on their house and means it, too.”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“You know, when people say ‘long story short,’ they’re usually trying to be polite. They don’t actually mean ‘I’ll leave out all the pertinent details about how I kidnapped a dude and tied him to a chair.”
― Ian Loome, Code Red

“So believe me when I say that the arc of the pool cue slicing through the air towards my head was a thing of beauty,”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“how come youse almonds taste like bacon?”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“there’s a certain lack of respect for physics and biology when you ignore the power of a firearm.”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“If you don’t know a subject well, you can’t cover all the bases.”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“them to turn right and look for parking at the gigantic Westin”
― Ian Loome, Snake Eyes

“they could catch on.”
― Ian Loome, Snake Eyes

“Police could find the head of your business partner in your freezer, and by the time Denny was done with them, a jury would be convinced police planted the head and stole your ice cream.”
― Ian Loome, Blood Debt

“I was already crouched, so it made sense to throw the uppercut. It’s never been my strongest punch – I’m more a stick-and-move guy, despite being close to a heavyweight, so I favor my hook. But I had a substantial tactical advantage, and I came up hard, nailing him with my right hand pretty much flush on the button, that helpful cluster of nerves at the end of the chin. His knees buckled, his eyes rolled backwards, and he crumpled like a pup tent in heavy wind, the pool cue clattering to the ground and rolling away. It hadn’t taken more than about fifteen seconds for the whole fight, including the time it had taken me to tap the cue swinger on the shoulder. But everyone in the dingy pool hall had stopped to stare, and the only sound was the blaring tune. Light streamed into the room from the wall of windows overlooking the strip”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“Instead, the cab turned right, onto Chestnut Street,”
― Ian Loome, Snake Eyes

“She looked like a secretary who’d swallowed a candy striper.”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“were dropped his morning.”
― Ian Loome, Hard Country

“He was above five feet away,”
― Ian Loome, Kill Chain

“There are certain signs of a guilty conscience that do not take a great surplus of intuition to spot.”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“Rich guys used other people’s money to leverage more of other people’s money”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“Bob”
― Ian Loome, Code Red

“then rested it again the”
― Ian Loome, Snake Eyes

“a big corporation will destroy your life, your hopes and your dreams accidentally, without even noticing, and still won’t give a damn afterwards.”
― L.H. Thomson, Quinn Checks In

“we’re taking”
― Ian Loome, Snake Eyes