Al Macy > Quotes

“God’s will is a jigsaw puzzle. Until you put all the pieces together, you can’t see the whole picture”
― Al Macy, A Mind Reader's Christmas

“I’ll invoke a quotation from Mark Twain: “When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.” I”
― Al Macy, Drive, Ride, Repeat: The Mostly-True Account of a Cross-Country Car and Bicycle Adventure

“A sociopath has a weak conscience. A psychopath has none. Totally missing. But you’re right, it’s too early to make that judgment.”
― Al Macy, Sufficient Evidence

“He’s busy not dying. Let’s”
― Al Macy, The Antiterrorist

“think frequent hairstyle changes suggest a lack of self-esteem. Ditto for tattoos, piercings, and smoking.”
― Al Macy, Damaging Evidence (Goodlove and Shek, #3

“Big Lagoon periodically breaks through the sand spit that walls it off from the ocean. Many rainbow trout go with the flow and spend years in the Pacific getting fat and big on the bounty of the ocean, then they come back into the lagoon to spawn. The rainbow that follow this life cycle are known as steelhead.”
― Al Macy, Damaging Evidence (Goodlove and Shek, #3

“woman goes into a store and asks to see the vibrators. The salesman beckons her by crooking a finger at her and says, ‘Come this way.’ She says, ‘If I could come that way, I wouldn’t need a vibrator!”
― Al Macy, Missing Evidence

“She looked at the ceiling as though a list were printed there. “One, identify the applicable laws, statutes, and decisions. Two, research the available facts in the case. Three, apply the applicable laws to the facts of the case to determine the rights or duties created by those facts. Four, give all interns involved in the case a huge bonus.”
― Al Macy, Sufficient Evidence

“The way I think of ASD,” she said, “is this: Most people, as they grow up, assimilate the norms of social behavior naturally, through osmosis, if you will. That was not the case for me or for many with ASD. It was as though I’d been dropped into a complex video game but without a manual. I still am unclear on how neurotypicals pick up on those norms. My brain is wired differently, and fortunately, my parents picked up on it very early. They remember the day they read through a list of Asperger’s symptoms, saying, ‘Yes!’ to each. They took me to a psychologist right away. That early diagnosis gave me a tremendous advantage.”
― Al Macy, Forgotten Evidence

“So today, I am tearing up my Introverts Anonymous card.” Jake held out the card and tore it in two, handing the pieces to Charli. “I promise that I will get out and socialize now and then, and that Charli may schedule up to one dinner party per year, as long as the invitees are aware that they are free to stay home and read a book if they wish.”
― Al Macy, Contact Us

“He’s a celebrity and richer than Croesus, whoever that is.” “King of Lydia, around 560 BC.”
― Al Macy, Damaging Evidence (Goodlove and Shek, #3

“Let me tell you a story.” He paused. “Once upon a time, there was a kingdom where everyone walked barefoot. One day, the queen stepped on a rock and cut her foot. When she got back to the castle, she decreed that all the streets must be covered with leather so that could never happen again. Her jester said, ‘Or maybe you could, like, just wear leather shoes. Duh.’ So, she had him beheaded.”
― Al Macy, Forgotten Evidence

“Sociopath, psychopath, what’s the difference?” “I don’t care for those terms, but generally, a psychopath has no conscience, whereas a sociopath has a conscience, but it’s very weak and easily ignored.”
― Al Macy, Missing Evidence

“She went to him, pulled him up, and gave him a long hug. “Arthur, you are my favorite sesquipedalian.”
― Al Macy, Missing Evidence

“Yo mama so poor, when she goes to KFC, she has to lick other people's fingers! I put”
― Al Macy, The Protected Witness: An Alex Booker Thriller

“I eased into my chair like a ninety-year-old with hemorrhoids.”
― Al Macy, The Antiterrorist

“Criminal defense lawyers see bad people at their best, while family lawyers see good people at their worst. It’s”
― Al Macy, Conclusive Evidence

“Sorry. It was in The New Yorker. There are these two explorers in Egypt, and far in the background you see all these huge pyramids. The explorers are looking at the ground, where there’s this, like, tip of a pyramid. Just a few inches high. One explorer says, ‘Let’s just cover it up and forget we ever saw it.”
― Al Macy, The Protected Witness: An Alex Booker Thriller

“He nodded and swallowed the pills with a sip from his water bottle. “I cannot express to you the severity of the soreness of every muscle in my body, but particularly the latissimus dorsi and obliques.” He pointed to his side. “I take it your muscles have habituated to surfing.”
― Al Macy, Forgotten Evidence

“Smoking helps you lose weight, one lung at a time.” “Mark Twain?” Louella shook her head. “Alfred E. Neuman.”
― Al Macy, Conclusive Evidence

“Don’t let his view of”
― Al Macy, Damaging Evidence (Goodlove and Shek, #3

“cacomorphobia,”
― Al Macy, Sufficient Evidence

“Exactly,” Guccio said. “The image I’m getting now is some fat alien lounging in a spherical spaceship, drinking a beer, watching The Wizard of Oz on TV, and yelling obscenities at the screen. I think I’d prefer a computer.”
― Al Macy, Contact Us

“wiggle, repeat.”
― Al Macy, The Antiterrorist

“Her mouth and chin seemed designed for sneering. I”
― Al Macy, The Antiterrorist

“My stomach didn’t let me read, eat, watch TV, or surf the internet.”
― Al Macy, The Antiterrorist

“gnomon of a sundial. I”
― Al Macy, Sufficient Evidence

“Each day I wake up with nothing to do, and by the end of the day, I’ve only gotten half of it done. If”
― Al Macy, Drive, Ride, Repeat: The Mostly-True Account of a Cross-Country Car and Bicycle Adventure

“The judge can do nothing to change the verdict. When it goes the other way, if the jury convicts the defendant despite a clear lack of evidence of guilt, the judge can give a directed verdict of not guilty. That situation, known as “jury vilification” is rare. Jury nullification, however, is much more common than most realize.”
― Al Macy, Conclusive Evidence

“When they got the boxes inside, one of the younger council members said, “This is better than drunken Amazon shopping.”
Marie squinted and cocked her head. “What’s that?”
“You know. You buy something on Amazon when you’re drunk and then when it arrives, it’s like Christmas. You have no idea what’s going to be in the box.”
― Al Macy, Contact Us