Rand Nix

“Have some faith in your government,” Barnes told her. “We march stupidly into countries we don’t understand; we sit back as our cities are decimated by natural disasters; and we let our schools go quietly to shit—despite these things, one thing we’re pretty good at is finding people who don’t want to be found.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

“Chris told us one day we were all out of touch; we didn’t really know and understand Black Crowes fans. “I have a feeling I’m more in touch with them than you are, as you live in the Hollywood Hills and you spend more on weed than most people make in a year,” I replied. “That’s not fucking true.” “How much do you spend on weed in a year?” “I don’t know, a hundred grand?”
― Steve Gorman, Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes--A Memoir

“Grundy Dopps, a sour-looking little pinch of white trash, waddled out of his trailer that morning somehow knowing it wasn’t going to be his day.”
― Michael Stone, Streeter: All Four Novels

“I can hear the boy in the library. The noise of children is unmistakable. Even when they are trying to be quiet. Maybe even more so.”
― Eric Barnes, The City Where We Once Lived