“The first thing you want to do after being shot is make sure you are not shot again.”
―
Ace Atkins
“For all his apologies, the convict Esau Davis was just a low-level toilet scrubber without the sense that God gave a goat. If she could get to a pistol or a shotgun or a hammer or a screwdriver, Caddy Colson would go all redneck on his ass and tear him a new asshole. That’s the way she was feeling, sitting there in the front seat of his shitty old truck, muffler rattling loose and wild, while he took Kleenex to his bleeding eye and talked about old times with Jamey Dixon like he thought they could still be friends after all this shit went down.” ― Ace Atkins, The Broken Places
“He kept most of his guns in a” ― Ace Atkins, The Lost Ones
“up in bed, but there they were, he and Maggie, twisted under a white sheet trying to catch their breath. The topic of conversation hadn’t been all that sexy, Quinn leaving the late shift that morning, carrying the news of the forensics on the girl they found out at the Pennington property. Maggie had dropped off Brandon at school, still dressed in sweatpants and a T-shirt, drinking coffee on the porch when he got back to the farmhouse. He sat on the porch with her and laid out all of it. The girl was a teen or in her early twenties, buried at least twenty” ― Ace Atkins, The Shameless
“we uncovered something darker and more sinister, a true meditation on today’s society. What do we value? Lies or facts. Posturing or morality.” ― Ace Atkins, The Shameless
“I have not forgotten about the REO Speedwagon incident. No more of that. Never.” ― Ace Atkins, The Revelators
“and said, “Yes, ma’am.” ― Ace Atkins, The Lost Ones
“I pull alongside him,” Hawk said. “And you roll down the window. Ask that motherfucker if he got any Grey Poupon.” “I was thinking the exact same thing,” I said. “Or perhaps we discreetly tail him hither and yon to find a good place for a proper introduction.” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me
“Jean made the seventies seem like some weird, mystical time, like a Redneck Camelot.” ― Ace Atkins, The Revelators
“Most folks didn’t like Skinner. And those who did called him an acquired taste. Like sardines. Or the music of Jim Nabors.” ― Ace Atkins, The Revelators
“In the doorframe stood Gus T. Jones and another old man, carrying a six-shooter. Jones looked at the scene, his mouth downturned like it was the sorriest goddamn thing he’d ever witnessed. He shook his head with pity for all the weakness in the world, removed his hat, and said, “I sure hope we’re not interrupting anything.” ― Ace Atkins, Infamous
“45-millimeter bullet,” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby
“Like working out, the first rule of success was just showing up.” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies
“may” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me
“Heywood” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot
“The whole thing didn’t seem to bother Geraline but rattled poor Lang so bad that the little girl had to hold his cigarette while he lit it. She even told Lang he didn’t have the nerves for gangster work.” ― Ace Atkins, Infamous
“Kathryn nodded. “She was mean to Chingy.” “That goddamn rat shit on her Oriental rug.” “It was an ugly rug.” ― Ace Atkins, Infamous
“The Kid made a pass at Vi,” Miller said, staring straight ahead. His blue eyes like ice. “He told her he’d like to place his pecker right between her titties and ride her like a mule.” “The Kid said that?” Harvey asked, lighting up a Chesterfield and fanning out the match. “I don’t even know what that means. ‘Like a mule’?” ― Ace Atkins, Infamous
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.’ ” “I figured you’d be in.” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby
“For all his apologies, the convict Esau Davis was just a low-level toilet scrubber without the sense that God gave a goat. If she could get to a pistol or a shotgun or a hammer or a screwdriver, Caddy Colson would go all redneck on his ass and tear him a new asshole. That’s the way she was feeling, sitting there in the front seat of his shitty old truck, muffler rattling loose and wild, while he took Kleenex to his bleeding eye and talked about old times with Jamey Dixon like he thought they could still be friends after all this shit went down.” ― Ace Atkins, The Broken Places
“He kept most of his guns in a” ― Ace Atkins, The Lost Ones
“up in bed, but there they were, he and Maggie, twisted under a white sheet trying to catch their breath. The topic of conversation hadn’t been all that sexy, Quinn leaving the late shift that morning, carrying the news of the forensics on the girl they found out at the Pennington property. Maggie had dropped off Brandon at school, still dressed in sweatpants and a T-shirt, drinking coffee on the porch when he got back to the farmhouse. He sat on the porch with her and laid out all of it. The girl was a teen or in her early twenties, buried at least twenty” ― Ace Atkins, The Shameless
“we uncovered something darker and more sinister, a true meditation on today’s society. What do we value? Lies or facts. Posturing or morality.” ― Ace Atkins, The Shameless
“I have not forgotten about the REO Speedwagon incident. No more of that. Never.” ― Ace Atkins, The Revelators
“and said, “Yes, ma’am.” ― Ace Atkins, The Lost Ones
“I pull alongside him,” Hawk said. “And you roll down the window. Ask that motherfucker if he got any Grey Poupon.” “I was thinking the exact same thing,” I said. “Or perhaps we discreetly tail him hither and yon to find a good place for a proper introduction.” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me
“Jean made the seventies seem like some weird, mystical time, like a Redneck Camelot.” ― Ace Atkins, The Revelators
“Most folks didn’t like Skinner. And those who did called him an acquired taste. Like sardines. Or the music of Jim Nabors.” ― Ace Atkins, The Revelators
“In the doorframe stood Gus T. Jones and another old man, carrying a six-shooter. Jones looked at the scene, his mouth downturned like it was the sorriest goddamn thing he’d ever witnessed. He shook his head with pity for all the weakness in the world, removed his hat, and said, “I sure hope we’re not interrupting anything.” ― Ace Atkins, Infamous
“45-millimeter bullet,” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby
“Like working out, the first rule of success was just showing up.” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies
“may” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me
“Heywood” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot
“The whole thing didn’t seem to bother Geraline but rattled poor Lang so bad that the little girl had to hold his cigarette while he lit it. She even told Lang he didn’t have the nerves for gangster work.” ― Ace Atkins, Infamous
“Kathryn nodded. “She was mean to Chingy.” “That goddamn rat shit on her Oriental rug.” “It was an ugly rug.” ― Ace Atkins, Infamous
“The Kid made a pass at Vi,” Miller said, staring straight ahead. His blue eyes like ice. “He told her he’d like to place his pecker right between her titties and ride her like a mule.” “The Kid said that?” Harvey asked, lighting up a Chesterfield and fanning out the match. “I don’t even know what that means. ‘Like a mule’?” ― Ace Atkins, Infamous
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.’ ” “I figured you’d be in.” ― Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby
