John Gilstrap > Quotes

“Run,Nathan,run.
Run as if your life depended on it.”
― John Gilstrap, Nathan's Run

“.....youth dies when you stop believing that you can affect the hand you're dealt at birth. The reality is, sometimes you just draw shitty cards, and no matter how much you plan, and no matter how hard you work to be good and to go to church and to think the right thoughts, there's nothing in the world you can do to get a reshuffle.”
― John Gilstrap, Even Steven

“Battles are won when warriors make the decisions not to lose.”
― John Gilstrap, No Mercy

“we reporters are not all that incentivized to determine whether the underlying facts behind the leaks are truth or fiction. The fact that an important person said it is itself newsworthy.”
― John Gilstrap, High Treason

“published”
― John Gilstrap, Against All Enemies

“* * * “You’d have made a helluva dancer, Big Guy,”
― John Gilstrap, Lethal Prey

“Life is too short and filled with disappointments to deny yourself the best.”
― John Gilstrap, Hostage Zero

“laughed. “Hey, if enough people say it, it has to be”
― John Gilstrap, Friendly Fire

“Jesses”
― John Gilstrap, No Mercy

“had rented in Paris a before the”
― John Gilstrap, Hellfire

“In military families, the trained protector was forever protecting someone else. On the home front, crisis control rested squarely on the shoulders of the spouses, everything from broken bones to broken hearts, leaking water heaters to car repair.”
― John Gilstrap, Threat Warning

“Gail Bonneville’s chair squeaked noisily as she leaned all the way back and stretched to relieve the kink that now owned space between her shoulder blades. With her feet up on her desk,”
― John Gilstrap, No Mercy

“When she saw her answer,”
― John Gilstrap, Stealth Attack

“Fear is God’s way of telling us when to duck.”
― John Gilstrap, Crimson Phoenix

“Whatever his bullets touched instantly joined a parallel universe.”
― John Gilstrap, End Game

“And all that lay ahead of them was the future.”
― John Gilstrap, At All Costs

“They way that Connie saw it—”
― John Gilstrap, Hellfire

“Jonathan nodded and joined him in watching the lane stripes on the Beltway zoom past. They”
― John Gilstrap, No Mercy

“family. Boomer deserves better than a bullet. I don’t care what he did, he deserves better than that.”
― John Gilstrap, End Game

“to their names, but the car they’re driving is registered”
― John Gilstrap, End Game

“Poor alcoholics were bums; rich alcoholics were eccentric.”
― John Gilstrap, Nathan's Run

“pall”
― John Gilstrap, Against All Enemies

“That would explain the pigs I saw flying over frozen Hell this morning,”
― John Gilstrap, End Game

“Whatever happened, happened in exactly one way, and the investigator’s job was to sift through often-conflicting bits and pieces to construct the one true story.”
― John Gilstrap, No Mercy

“father flipped the light”
― John Gilstrap, Damage Control

“when he heard the voice, he knew for”
― John Gilstrap, Against All Enemies

“If you hear the explosion, you’re okay. But”
― John Gilstrap, No Mercy

“The fullness of the moon made it all more complicated. The intense silver glow cast shadows as defined as midday despite the thin veil of cloud cover. Dressed entirely in black, with only his eyes showing beneath his hood, Jonathan Grave moved like a shadow in the stillness. Crickets and tree frogs, nocturnal noisemakers by the thousands, gave him some cover, but not enough. There was never enough cover. He reminded himself that he was in Indiana soybean country facing a clueless adversary, but then he remembered the penalty for failing to respect one’s adversary.”
― John Gilstrap, No Mercy

“as the foot of the marble sink that was Jonathan’s next destination. His sink. One of two.”
― John Gilstrap, No Mercy

“Ten feet under the parking lot that separated Jonathan’s firehouse home from the basement of St. Katherine’s Catholic Church, Jonathan and Boxers worked together in the twenty-five- by twenty-five-foot armory, selecting the weapons and tools they might reasonably need to meet the requirements of the upcoming 0300 mission. Built of reinforced concrete, and accessed by an enormous steel door that was originally designed for a bank vault, the armory was a place of solitude for Jonathan. Something about the combined smells of Hoppe’s solvent, gun oil, and the hints of isocyanates from the explosives brought him comfort.”
― John Gilstrap, End Game