Stuart Woods > Quotes

“Holly Barker series was a great read for me. Stuart gives short chapters and continued action all through his books.”
― Stuart Woods

“I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.”
― Stuart Woods, Unintended Consequences

“from”
― Stuart Woods, New York Dead

“What's the matter, don't you like surprises?"
"I like them if they're pleasant ones, and when they happen suddenly," Holly said. "But not when I have to ponder them for an hour and forty-five minutes.”
― Stuart Woods, Reckless Abandon

“There was a sort of invisible, one-way barrier between that young woman and the rest of the world ; everything passed through it to her but very little passed out.”
― Stuart Woods, New York Dead

“gives an outstanding officer the chance of a lifetime to make his whole career.” Helder blinked. The classical circumstance which created that sort of opportunity was war.”
― Stuart Woods, Deep Lie

“I’m a part of this team, a real part of this team, not the mascot.”
― Stuart Woods, Jackpot

“Stone reckoned that most of the innocent people in prison had been sent there by police officers and prosecutors who reasoned that these victims were, after all, probably guilty of something, and better a conviction of an innocent person than no conviction at all.”
― Stuart Woods, New York Dead

“Stone arrived at the station house at one o’clock sharp. The squad room was abuzz with detectives on the phone. He raised his eyebrows at one, and the man gave a huge shrug. A moment later, he hung up.”
― Stuart Woods, New York Dead

“He was a simple, animal hunger, and he didn't care what he was eating or how it tasted .
It was like taking aspirin to make a headache go away.
You don't enjoy the aspirin”
― Stuart Woods, New York Dead

“Dino put his feet up and chatted for a couple of minutes, then he put down the phone and returned to the table. "Okay," he said, "the ME confirms his first estimate of time of death. The girl had a tiny purse tucked into her vagina, just big enough to hold her driver's license, a credit card, and a few bucks. Her name is Elizabeth Sweeney.”
― Stuart Woods, Desperate Measures

“Chapter 8”
― Stuart Woods, Naked Greed

“if they were Bible salesmen.”
― Stuart Woods, D.C. Dead

“dinner, and by the time they had finished their”
― Stuart Woods, Insatiable Appetites

“Grass Roots‡”
― Stuart Woods, Naked Greed

“Of course,” Wilfred said, “but our Russian friends, who are artful in these things, have a substance said to be made from two common household ingredients, which, when mixed, make a poison that works in a few minutes and is chemically untraceable.” “What are the ingredients?” Roger asked. “I don’t know—and I don’t want to know,” Wilfred replied. “If they became public knowledge there would be an immediate rash of unexplained domestic deaths in this country and around the world.”
― Stuart Woods, Stealth

“underestimated Macher,” he said. “How so?”
― Stuart Woods, Fast & Loose

“Tumult”
― Stuart Woods, Cold Paradise

“Stone’s shoulder and pointed. “There’s”
― Stuart Woods, Swimming To Catalina

“into”
― Stuart Woods, Near Miss

“Penobscot Bay,”
― Stuart Woods, Shoot First

“landing there anyway.” “Wish I could, but duty calls. Maybe”
― Stuart Woods, Dishonorable Intentions

“allegedly,”
― Stuart Woods, Fresh Disasters

“The sun is officially over the yardarm, somewhere, so come with me.”
― Stuart Woods, Criminal Mischief

“Welcome to San Francisco,” the AOC said.”
― Stuart Woods, Hot Pursuit

“Or, perhaps, Hillary and Jack Coulter, since she was the one with all the money, and there was a great deal of it. He added a couple of paragraphs to the memo he was sending to the tax and finance department of his law firm, Woodman & Weld, where his suggestions would be reviewed to keep him out of trouble. His phone buzzed.”
― Stuart Woods, Carnal Curiosity

“It was time to panic, Scotty thought. The only thing she could think of was to faint.

Scotty had never fainted before, not even in the worst moments of her life, but she was so frightened that very little acting was required. She simply placed a hand on her forehead, then crumpled in sections at Bo's feet like an elongated sack of oranges.

Bo's inexperience with fainting apparently matched Scotty's, because he reacted as if she had taken an arrow to the chest.”
― Stuart Woods, Under the Lake

“and worked her way up to major and”
― Stuart Woods, Orchid Beach

“downstairs”
― Stuart Woods, Quick & Dirty

“he was”
― Stuart Woods, Deep Lie