TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and doesn’t let go, even after you’ve closed the book.

An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

Who you are as a character is kind of the foundation of everything.

Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.

As a writer, my job is to think of evil ways to destroy the world and save it. What could be more fun?

Did you know Johnny thinks he's Pittacus resurrected?

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.