David Housewright > Quotes

“Mankato was originally called Mahkato—meaning “greenish blue earth”—by its earliest inhabitants, the Dakota, although it didn’t look any different to me. It became Mankato because of a spelling error that was never corrected, possibly made by the eighteenth-century Europeans searching for the Northwest Passage who settled there after getting lost on the Minnesota River.”
― David Housewright, Pretty Girl Gone

“checked the load, and slipped it under my belt behind my right hip. “Are you supposed to be wearing a bulletproof vest, are you supposed to be carrying a gun?” a guard asked. “Isn’t that against the rules?” “What rules?” I said. He didn’t have an answer for that. I put on my leather coat. The money was still packed in the gym bags, the gym bags strapped to the dolly in the center of my living room. I grabbed the handle and started wheeling it to the back door of my house. I had a remote control hanging from the lock on the window overlooking my unattached garage. I used it to open the garage door. “There’s no reason for you guys to hang around anymore,” I said. The guards followed me out of my back door, across the driveway, and into the garage just the same. They stood by and watched while I loaded the dolly and the gym bags into the trunk of the Audi. “Nice car,” one of them said. If he had offered me ten bucks, I would have sold the Audi and all of its contents to him right then and there. Because he didn’t, I unlocked the driver’s door and slid behind the wheel. “Good luck,” the guard said and closed the door for me. He smiled like I was a patient about to be wheeled into surgery; smiled like he felt sorry for me. I put the key in the ignition, started up the car, depressed the clutch, put the transmission in reverse, and—sat there for five seconds, ten, fifteen … Why are you doing this? my inner voice asked. Are you crazy? The guard watched me through the window, an expression of concern mixed with puzzlement on his face. “McKenzie, are you okay?” he asked. “Never better,” I said. I slowly released the clutch and backed the Audi out of my driveway”
― David Housewright, Curse of the Jade Lily

“have”
― David Housewright, Jelly's Gold

“Have you read all these books?” she asked, waving at them with both hands. “Of course not. Why would anyone want a library filled only with books they’ve already read?”
― David Housewright, Penance

“If we’re lucky, our ticket isn’t collected until we’re old and gray and dying is as easy as closing our eyes and whispering good-bye.”
― David Housewright, A Hard Ticket Home

“I can understand how an all-loving God, one who cares deeply, might not have the power to intervene. But if He’s all powerful and still allows innocent people to suffer and die as Jamie and Katherine had suffered and died, wouldn’t that make Him one callous sonuvabitch? I”
― David Housewright, A Hard Ticket Home

“The gazebo on the hill was large enough to shelter the University of Minnesota Alumni Band.”
― David Housewright, In a Hard Wind

“Edina.” “That’s one of the wealthiest suburbs in the Twin Cities.” “It’s not Lake Minnetonka, though. Or North Oaks. Or Sunfish Lake. You need to understand. These are people who never attend the Minnesota State Fair for fear of rubbing up against the wrong kind of people.”
― David Housewright, First, Kill the Lawyers

“I hit”
― David Housewright, Practice to Deceive

“Funny how tragedy brings some people closer to God while pushing others away. I figure it’s because one group doesn’t expect as much from him as the other.”
― David Housewright, Tin City

“In Minnesota, the longer you can go without heat, the more manly you are.”
― David Housewright, A Hard Ticket Home