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"I will think of Watkins as my adversary. An enemy has to be defeated in battle, but an adversary’s different. You must outwit an adversary. So you do have to know them very well."

“When she’s done, and it really doesn’t take long to tell, the truth rarely does, there is only silence.”🤫

"Joseph Smith and the early Mormons had tried their best to murder all Indians in their path across the country, but in the end did not quite succeed. Arthur V. Watkins decided to use the power of his office to finish what the prophet had started. He didn’t even have to get his hands bloody."

"My terror will never leave me. Nor the grief I keep hidden like a precious jewel, a hard diamond made from the black carbon of my burnt-up heart."

“Emancipated. But they were not enslaved. Freed from being Indians was the idea. Emancipated from their land. Freed from the treaties that Thomas’s father and grandfather had signed and that were promised to last forever. So as usual, by getting rid of us, the Indian problem would be solved.”

"That dress was an inch shorter, you’d have to powder another set of cheeks.”😁

"Patrice had come to think that humans treated the concept of God, or Gizhe Manidoo, or the Holy Ghost, in a childish way. She was pretty sure that the rules and trappings of ritual had nothing to do with God, that they were ways for people to imagine they were doing things right in order to escape from punishment, or harm, like children."

“I have neither permit or gun. I loathe them, but I can bluff the sh*t out of a wild hog if it comes to it. But you two, I trust. Besides, I think I can whip at least one of you in an unfair fight and make it not worth the other’s effort.”😆

"Malcolm trotted to the door. His hand holding the gun under the raincoat was sweating from the heat, the drug, and his nerves."

“They had been in the wrong place, wrong time. I just wanted to go to a g*damn wedding, Jane told herself, and here I am in a cattle truck heading into domestic servitude, and who knows what all else.”

“The steel-jacketed bullet caught her at the base of the skull. It spun her up and around, slowly, like a marionette ballerina turning on one tiny foot.”😱

“I think we all believe certain b*llshit. True love. Magic numbers, astrological signs. Maybe we have to. Or some of us have to. I met a man that wasn’t worth the toilet paper to wipe his ass, and I insisted to myself that he was better than he was, and that what I was seeing daily was not the real him, like the real him was hiding in the bathroom.”

“A dramatist I once knew said the best way to create chaos is to flood the scene with actors. I’ve managed to capitalize on the chaos of others.”

“She had run naked as an ancient Olympian down into the creek behind where the church then stood, through the woods, and to her house while the cops were still working their way out of their cars. She was so fast she had watched them through her living room window as they came up to the reverend, who was wearing his pants backwards”🤣

“This is Condor, Section 9, Department 17. We’ve been hit.”

“Zane! He’s still in the barn. He just took a shot at the ambulance!”

“The little boy says, “Look Mom, look over there! That monster’s stealing food!”🫢

“Another teen died last night.”

“Small Town Rule #2: Reputations are made in five seconds and stick for twenty years. Or more.”

"Small Town Rule #1: Share secrets only when you want the entire town to know."

“I look at my face again. Would Mom recognize this face? The way she recognized my voice, would she see me inside this thing?”

“To the CIA, everyone is an outsider,” Lake observed.”

"My arms are pulled behind me and something is wrapped around my wrists and I hear a zipping sound. I’m jerked back off the hood and hauled toward the rear passenger-side door of the sedan."😰

“American marines were siding with the Christians, American jets were dropping bombs on Muslims, and American ships were lobbing one-ton shells into the hills of Lebanon without knowing what they were hitting. The White House had gone to war in the Middle East with no idea of what it was getting into.”

“At home I pop four ludes.
And still I dream.
I dream about baseball.
And wake a few hours later, wanting things and people that are long dead.”

“Throughout 1969 and 1970, Nixon and Kissinger focused the CIA on the secret expansion of the war in Southeast Asia. They ordered the agency to make $725,000 in political payoffs to President Thieu of South Vietnam, manipulate the media in Saigon, fix an election in Thailand, and step up covert commando raids in North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.”

“That’s the problem with good times. They never last like they should.”

“We harvested a lot of lies,” said Robert Barbour, the deputy chief of the American embassy’s political section. “Some of them we knew were lies. Some of them we didn’t.”

"She set her beer down and pressed against him, wrapping herself around the arm as a girl might cling to a vine, as a woman might if she thought the warmth of her body could heal."

“In his experience violence arrives when it wants to, and if it wants you it’ll find you, just like lightning.”