John Ellsworth > Quotes

“At 9 p.m. Feb. 3, 1945, an American tank, the Georgia Peach, crashed into the front gate.”
― John Ellsworth, Lies She Never Told Me

“located inside, he entered the bathroom and opened the top cabinet above the towels. He felt around and felt nothing metallic or hard plastic that might rattle against the weapons. He then placed them on the top shelf of the cabinet and slowly closed the door. Back in the bedroom he paused to listen to her breathing. He satisfied himself that she was still asleep—very asleep. She had worked a long, hard shift and her body was tired and resting deeply. So he crossed to the dresser, found her purse, and stuck his hand inside. Instantly he located the clip of 65 $100 bills with his fingers, and eased them out.”
― John Ellsworth, Thaddeus Murfee Box Set: Thaddeus Murfee / The Defendants / Beyond a Reasonable Death

“On June 16, 1933, the Senate passed the Glass-Steagall Act whereby banks were forbidden from selling stocks and bonds. The Act also created the FDIC, which insures banks against failure.”
― John Ellsworth, Lies She Never Told Me

“What about a nuchal cord. What’s that?” “That’s when the umbilical cord wraps around the newborn’s neck.”
― John Ellsworth, Chase, the Bad Baby

“The survivor craves justice, yes, but even more they crave the quieting of memories.”
― John Ellsworth, The Point of Light

“Thaddeus knew again what it felt like to be living a life that was totally out of control. Which is something a cancer diagnosis can do in an eye blink. You don't know what it means, you're threatened and scared to death, and you lack all the information you'll need to try to pull yourself”
― John Ellsworth, The Trial Lawyer

“He was a natural born prevaricator and fabricator: in short, he had found the perfect job in the practice of law, where things are never what they’re said to be.”
― John Ellsworth, Thaddeus Murfee Box Set: Thaddeus Murfee / The Defendants / Beyond a Reasonable Death

“was wearing what could only be a Victoria's Secret bra, with its trademark”
― John Ellsworth, The Defendants

“When would it occur to parents that helping others needed to start with their own children?”
― John Ellsworth, Secrets Girls Keep

“sacred—church, home, family, community welfare, a dedication to helping the less fortunate”
― John Ellsworth, Lies She Never Told Me

“That’s why they pay me two-fifty an hour.” “Hey, it’s 1976. Consider yourself well-paid.”
― John Ellsworth, Lies She Never Told Me

“Semtex is the best plastic explosive in the world. It feels like Play-Doh, has no smell, and was designed in 1966 to clear land-mines and improve industrial safety. It is also undetectable by dogs and airport security devices, and after it left Mr. Brebera's laboratory in 1968, Semtex became the favored weapon of international terrorists from Libya to Northern Ireland. Since Sept. 11, the Czech Republic and its new NATO allies have become increasingly nervous about the continued production and sale of Brebera's fatal concoction. Over the past two decades, terrorists have employed Semtex in several deadly attacks, including the 1988 explosion of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. And no one has found a reliable way to combat it. Named after Semtin, the village in East Bohemia where Brebera invented it, this extraordinarily stable compound of RDX (Cyclonite) and PETN (Penaerythrite Tetranitrate) slips through airport security scans as easily as a pair of nylons.”
― John Ellsworth, The Post Office

“Because he knew, deep down, that all people in the end, must, as the song said, do the final dance alone.”
― John Ellsworth, The Post Office

“had to smile. "Willie Sutton said it. He robbed banks because that's where the money is.”
― John Ellsworth, The Lawyer: Books 4-6: Michael Gresham Series

“crowded”
― John Ellsworth, Dead Lawyer on Aisle 11

“deliquesce”
― John Ellsworth, The Trial Lawyer

“Which made her think of the scorpion that hitched a ride across the pond on the frog’s back. At the other side, the scorpion stung the frog to death. Just as he was departing this world, the frog managed to ask, “Why did you sting me? I helped you!” “You know what?” said the scorpion. “It’s just my nature.”
― John Ellsworth, Chase, the Bad Baby

“Finally, there was Nicki Pitts, a Berliner by birth, as in “Ich komme aus Berlin,” and not to be confused with the infamous, “Ich bin ein Berliner,” meaning “I am a jelly donut.”
― John Ellsworth, Lawyers in Gray, Second Edition

“balaclava;”
― John Ellsworth, The Lawyer: Books 4-6: Michael Gresham Series

“and Gentlemen, I'm going to ask”
― John Ellsworth, The Defendants

“amygdala”
― John Ellsworth, Chase, the Bad Baby

“flipped the Oakley’s over his eyes,”
― John Ellsworth, The Defendants

“We are interdependent in a healthy way. In our world it has sometimes been our interdependence that has kept us bound together as a fighting unit even when one of us was badly injured in body or spirit.”
― John Ellsworth, The Law Partners

“R.L. Johnstine,”
― John Ellsworth, Jane Doe 235

“Ms.”
― John Ellsworth, The Point of Light

“Mark Knopfler.”
― John Ellsworth, Michael Gresham Box Set Books 1-3: 3 Legal Thrillers

“Why? Because juries were, for the most part, not very bright. At least not in Jake O'Connor's worldview. How could they be? They were comprised of voters, who insisted on re-electing the same con artists who had screwed them last term. That,”
― John Ellsworth, The Mental Case

“the”
― John Ellsworth, The Defendants Box Set: Thaddeus Murfee / The Defendants / Beyond a Reasonable Death

“author, except for the use”
― John Ellsworth, The District Attorney

“Soul mates, that's what they had called themselves. Mated at the level of the soul.”
― John Ellsworth, The Mental Case