Sean Black > Quotes

“Thousands of people in the city who lived in walk-ups dreamed of moving out so they could escape having to climb flights of stairs. Yet here she was, surrounded by women of her age and younger, paying for the privilege.”
― Sean Black, Lockdown

“...You ever been at a military base when the brass are visiting, or worse, the President? The place is unrecognizable. Everything they want the VIP to see is out front and center, and everything they don't want them to see gets squirreled away until they've gone. It's just human nature.”
― Sean Black, The Deep Abiding

“Holy shit. Only in corporate America could a child abduction which had already yielded one dead body be seen as a way to make a business appear warm and cuddly.”
― Sean Black, Lockdown

“Il problema non era solo la violenza. Era l’insidiosa accettazione che portava con sé. Inizialmente, quando i cartelli erano diventati più estremi c’erano state marce di protesta e i giornalisti come suo marito si erano fatti sentire insieme ad altra gente. Poi avevano cominciato ad uccidere quelli che osavano protestare. Raggiunse”
― Sean Black, A caccia del diavolo

“della sua età e più giovani, a”
― Sean Black, Sotto sequestro

“Chance looked up at him, her dark grey eyes out. 'I knew you were gonna be like this.'

'How'd you know?' Reaper said, reaching out and putting his arm around her shoulders.

'I am my father's daughter, ain't I?' said Chance
.
Reaper smiled. 'You sure as hell you are.”
― Sean Black, Deadlock

“Ty leaned in to him. "This is some weird scene, even by LA standards," he said.
"They're not from LA," Lock reminded him.
"No kidding. We're having to import our weirdness now. Seems like they do that better than us too," said Ty.”
― Sean Black, Red Tiger

“if, overnight, you swapped the people on wanted posters with the ones featured on election flyers, less might change than people assumed. the prison population might have nicer teeth, and access to better drugs, while congress might feature more neck tattoos and wife beaters (both literal and figurative). otherwise the world would roll on pretty much the same.”
― Sean Black, Blood Country

“...if you're rich in this country you'll be treated a little differently from the rest of us. not because you're rich -- hell, with a jury that might work against you -- but because you can pay for a better defense....”
― Sean Black, The Devil's Bounty

“adesso”
― Sean Black, In gabbia

“documents, a glazed expression on his face.”
― Sean Black, Sean Black Bundle: Three Ryan Lock Novels

“...When you try to impose your will on human nature it can make things worse rather than better.”
― Sean Black, Red Tiger

“Having enough money could buy you freedom, but too much became its own prison.”
― Sean Black, The Devil's Bounty

“She smiled at him, that same look of shared understanding, then reached in again to touch his hand, pinching his palm between her thumb and index finger. 'You OK?'

'I could be on fire, but seeing you would make it all OK,' he replied, his voice as brittle as a three-pack-a-day smoker.”
― Sean Black

“Lock made eye contact. ‘Yeah. Where’d”
― Sean Black, Deadlock

“There were people who could tell from the size of a print whether it was a man or a woman, how heavy they were, how fast they were going, and all sorts of other shit like what they'd eaten for breakfast.”
― Sean Black, Winter's Rage

“Like his partner, Lock believed that the more prepared you were, the less likely you'd be called upon to use a weapon. It wasn't so much the deterrent factor as some glitch in the cosmos that seemed to dictate that the one time you weren't carrying was the one time you'd need your gun.”
― Sean Black, Red Tiger

“at the top, the world was populated by politicians, whether they had that title or not.”
― Sean Black, The Edge of Alone

“West had never decided what the hell it wanted to be: avenger or liberator. It had proved to be both, and in being both had become neither. Finally, the IEDs, rogue Afghans and the indifference of a war-sickened people had driven the military to a strategy of drones and men like me. The bitter bounty of our righteous war? Dead little girls and two-day heroes with blackened minds and stumps for limbs that the politicians could jerk off about for as long as the homecoming parade lasted. Wrap yourself in a flag that meant jack shit, drop some dollars into a bucket, close your door, and thank the Lord it wasn’t your son or daughter. That was the truth, as I saw it now. Just don’t say it out loud: if there was one thing the people back home hated more than terrorists, it was some asshole holding up a mirror to them. I kept walking, past the grunts, who had seen crazier shit than this and knew”
― Sean Black, Post

“but doing something and it being proved in a court of law, well, those were two different things.”
― Sean Black, Second Chance

“The law was an institution that moved slowly. Apprehension, ascertaining the truth: these took time. And the law was reactive. First a crime had to be committed. In the military, and now in the private sector, you couldn't wait for something to happen. By then it was too late.”
― Sean Black, The Deep Abiding