Russell Blake > Quotes

“Experience: Mistakes you have survived.”
― Russell Blake, Night of the Assassin

“The problem with getting older is you meant to bring sexy back, but then you got sidetracked, and wound up napping instead.”
― Russell Blake

“You feel strangely empowered when you realize that most of what you're told matters, only matters to those trying to sell you shit.”
― Russell Blake

“noisy flight as the lone man’s skull exploded in a bloody splatter. His body crumpled to the concrete, dead before what was left of his head hit the ground with a melon-like thud. The few witnesses nearby froze in their tracks,”
― Russell Blake, Jet

“Nothing in life worth doing is ever easy. But a wise man is a patient man.”
― Russell Blake, Ops Files

“The driver had the radio on low – listening to music that sounded like someone had tied percussion instruments to a cow and set it running down an alley.”
― Russell Blake, Jet

“the engine cranked over with a reluctant shudder before settling into an uneasy idle that sounded like monkeys banging on a pan with hammers.”
― Russell Blake, Sahara

“I’m sure he’s just out roaming around. That’s what cats do. Alley cats. Although the odds of Mugsy being able to fit into most alleys is a stretch…”
― Russell Blake, Black Is Back

“mechanical watch,”
― Russell Blake, Nemesis

“scam, he now had $3.8 million in the Cayman”
― Russell Blake, 9 Killer Thrillers

“JET is a work of fiction, and any resemblance between the characters in it and real people or organizations is purely coincidental or for literary effect.”
― Russell Blake, Jet

“yourself on that deputy. That’s as plain as the nose on your face.” “I have every right to be angry.” “As long as you live under our roof, you’ll live by our rules.” “Maybe that’s why Ray decided not to stay in town.” Mary’s knuckles whitened on the broom she was holding. “If Ray wants to live like an animal with the”
― Russell Blake, Insurrection

“The first sign of being crazy is being unaware that you might be crazy.”
― Russell Blake, Escape

“unfailing”
― Russell Blake, BLACK

“What do you think we should do?” Ruby asked Art. The General frowned. “Do? We have two options, way I see it: lie down and wait to die, or fight back.” He spit and grinned. “And I’ve never been very good at waiting, much less dying.”
― Russell Blake, Perdition

“landing with a grunt by Eli’s side, his sightless”
― Russell Blake, Ops Files

“You can sort of tell yourself that there’s a special exclusionary clause for yourself. That you’re different. That time’s not having its way with you like it is with everyone else.”
― Russell Blake, Black Is Back

“who had suffered under Heather’s sadistic thumb for sixteen years, until the bitch had finally graduated high”
― Russell Blake, 9 Killer Thrillers

“favorable reception of the first four volumes in the series. The goal was to continue”
― Russell Blake, Legacy

“Never get cocky. There’s always someone who’s better than you.”
― Russell Blake, Ops Files

“So there’s this place in Anchorage, I swear, called Skinny Dick’s. The sign by the highway says, and I’m not bullshitting you, ‘Liquor in the front, poker in the rear!”
― Russell Blake, BLACK To Reality

“But what really happened was that the darkness that’s always lurking just out of sight spotted weakness, and darkness always looks for any way to defeat light. Been that way since original sin.”
― Russell Blake, Blood Honor

“The pay sucks, but at least the hours are lousy and it’s seriously dangerous,” Duke said. “You had me at we could all die.”
― Russell Blake, Nemesis

“Her face was lined and hardened, as though whittled from driftwood washed up by a winter storm.”
― Russell Blake, Havoc

“The meal was an epicurean extravaganza, the Michelin chef outdoing himself with his nine courses, each richer than the last. Maya nibbled at the fare as first-growth Bordeaux flowed like water, ten cases of Chateau Petrus from a stellar year purchased at auction in New York and shipped to Nahir’s temperature-controlled, eight-thousand-bottle wine cellar for the party. After salad, lobster bisque, and curried shrimp, a small piece of seared pork belly was followed by ostrich in a truffle reduction, which in turn was trumped by poached Chilean sea bass, bluefin tuna, fugu prepared by a master Japanese chef skilled in the art of preparation of the poisonous pufferfish, and the final entrée course of Kobe beef filet.”
― Russell Blake, Ops Files

“not cross”
― Russell Blake, 9 Killer Thrillers

“Women, huh? What are you going to do with ’em? I thought the newer models would be easier to operate, but not at all. Can’t live with ’em, can’t keep ’em in a cage in the cellar…I never said that, by the way. The feminists would have a field day with it.” Hunter’s”
― Russell Blake, Black

“Because most didn’t know their neighbors and were unaccustomed to helping those in need, when things had broken down they’d had nothing to fall back on and had gone at each other like dogs. In the end, the every-man-for-himself ethos proved a deadly one for the majority.”
― Russell Blake, Purgatory Road

“commanding the entire length, so there was no cover or alternative to doing the dive. This was the only way to get close. A commotion from the sea bed startled him with a cloud of muddy sediment. A large stingray rose from the muck and glided by him, nudging his neoprene-encased legs with one of its wings. More sensing the creature than seeing it, he was momentarily caught off guard. His respiration increased as he flailed in alarm, causing a rush of bubbles to rise to the surface. Battling for control over his breathing, he struggled to slow his heart rate – after a few seconds of inward composure, he had it back to beating at a moderate pace. He didn’t pause long to dwell on the near-miss, beyond musing that it would be ironic if his”
― Russell Blake, Night of the Assassin

“retorted. “You got a gun. If someone comes”
― Russell Blake, 9 More Killer Thrillers