Thomas Griesedieck

“Brock liked the old stories about outlaws like Red. Men who just didn’t give a good fuck about the law or if and when they’d go down. Having other men talk about you in bars and on street corners after you were dead and gone, that’s what made a life worth living. Otherwise, wasn’t anything about you that was special. ’Cause everybody, straight and criminal alike, ended up covered in dirt. For that reason alone it was important to leave a powerful name behind.”
― George P. Pelecanos, The Night Gardener

“Not before lunch. I’m the new-type detective.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target

“It was not a tragedy, compared to all the other tragedies out there, that the life he’d worked for didn’t end up his life. It was not a tragedy: it was life.”
― Lucas Schaefer, The Slip: A Novel

“Now it was just as if he had never been born.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target