Edward Trujillo

“Rosie had what are termed ‘grateful looks’. She was grateful if anybody looked. Few did, not even Jack. Leroy Baker was a poor example of strength.”
― Ken Bruen, The White Trilogy: A White Arrest, Taming the Alien, and The McDead

“Sarah, his fifteen-year-old daughter, supposedly at boarding school, a very expensive one, in the coronary area. It didn’t so much drain his resources as blast a hole through them – wide and unstoppable. He tried for composure. ‘Whatcha doing home, not half term already?’ ‘No. I got suspended.’ ‘What? What on earth for? Got to get me a drink.’ He poured a sensible measure of Glenlivet, then added to it, took a heavy slug and glanced at his daughter. She was in that eternal moment of preciousness between girl and woman. She loved and loathed her dad in equal measure. He looked closer, said: ‘Good grief, are those hooks in your lips?’ ‘It’s fashion, Dad.’ ‘Bloody painful, I’d say. Is that why you’re home?’ ‘Course not. Mum says not to tell you, I didn’t do nuffink.’ Roberts sighed: an ever-constant cloud of financial ruin hung over his head, just to teach her how to pronounce ‘nothing’. And she said it as if she’d submerged south of the river and never surfaced.”
― Ken Bruen, The White Trilogy: A White Arrest, Taming the Alien, and The McDead

“For every cigarette you smoke, God takes an hour away from you…and gives it to Keith Richards.”
― Jo Nesbø, Knife

“What would I wish for this year? It came to me as I stepped out the front door into the rain, and the thought made me smile. The chances of the wish coming true were about a million to one, but what the hell? Why not? This year, I’d make my birthday wish simple and selfish. This year, before I gave up the practice of law, I’d wish for one—just one—innocent client.”
― Scott Pratt, An Innocent Client