From Cold Cold Bones … A Kathy Reichs’ novel featuring Temperance Brennan (aka Bones)
Tempe is speaking with a medical examiner who is working on the body of a guy who had recently fallen from a zip line.
Tempe asks her what might be the possible cause of death?
She says, “Acute Numerical Assumption.”
Tempe looks at her quizzically
She responds, “His number was up.”
From Jack Reacher … A Lee Child novel made into a TV series on Amazon Prime
Reacher is surrounded by toughs in an alley. When they ask him what he thinks he’s gonna’ do, Reacher tells them that he is going to break the wrists of three guys.
One of them says, “But there are four of us?”
Reacher responds, “One of you has to be able to drive to the hospital.”
From The New Girl … A Gabriel Allon novel by Daniel Silva
An Israeli agent asks a doctor about the condition of a Russian oligarch who was just exposed to radiation used in an assassination attempt.
“How bad is he?”
“A little south of Hiroshima … but not much”
From Vanished … A novel by Joseph Finder
Nick Heller after speaking with the corrupt CEO of a private security company …
“Wash DC is to lying what Hershey PA is to chocolate.“
From Killing Season… A Peter Decker/Rina Lazurus novel by Faye Kellerman
(An old joke) “The difference between involvement and commitment is like the difference between bacon and eggs.
The chicken is involved.
The pig is committed.”
From Monday Mourning … A Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs.
A woman calls a man up at 5 in the morning.
“Did I wake you up?”, she asks. “Nahh. I had to get up anyway to answer the phone.“
From Terminal Freeze… A novel by Lincoln Child.
In the Arctic, the ratio of men to women is said to be 10 to 1.
It is also said that “If a woman is interested, the odds are good … but the goods are odd.“
From Lethal Agent … A Mitch Rapp CIA thriller by Kyle Mills.
Rapp’s mentor, Stan Hurley: “It’s not how you play the game, its whether or not your opponent ends up dismembered in some woods..
From The Lost Boys … A Peter Decker/Rina Lazurus novel by Faye Kellerman.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me a third time, and someone is
a moronic dumbass. (Chris Donatti)
A woman in need of a liver transplant is told by her Russian boyfriend (who happens to be an assassin!) that he offered to donate part of his own liver to her, but was refused.
She told him, “Doesn’t matter. They say you should never accept a liver from a Russian.” (From the Mitch Rapp spy novel, Red War, by Kyle Mills.)
He was so dumb … “He couldn’t plan a fart after eating beans.” (from The Mercedes Coffin by Faye Kellerman)
Police Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets a call from a murder suspect who says he wants to talk and he asks Milo if they can meet.
Milo looks at his friend, Alex Delaware, and says, “If I respond ‘Hell, yeah’, do you think that would sound too eager?”
“His hometown is so fuckin’ small, the Laundromat uses a clothesline.” (Author John Sandford, paraphrased slightly from his novel Golden Prey)
“Spank me, I’ve been a bad boy.” (The Donald, 2006, to Stormy Daniels)
After getting roughed up in a fight, Hawk asks Spenser what happened. “I cut myself shaving.” To which Hawk replies, “What, you shaving with a weed wacker now?”
Hawk to Spenser talking about two thugs they are tailing: “If those boys were any dumber, you’d have to water ’em.”
Capt. Marty Quirk to Spenser: “Shit happens. You should probably Just put that on your business cards.”
“Your mother was a vending machine and your father was a roto-rooter.” An annoyed Louise Baltimore speaking to her robot Sherman in the 1983 novel Millennium.
“I solve all my cases. They’re just not all solved yet.” Spenser, 1994
“Better here than Philadelphia” on WC Fields’ tombstone
“I’ll have what she’s having” from When Harry Met Sally, 1989
From the movie Absence of Malice starring Paul Newman and Sally Field, and with one of the recently passed Wilford Brimley’s best character performances.
A dirty, local district attorney tells Brimley, who is an Asst. Attorney General, that recent bad publicity for the justice department was due to a leak.
Brimley answers, “A leak? You call that a leak? The last time there was a leak like that, Noah built hisself a boat!”
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