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We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other. — Don Winslow

I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict. — Don Winslow

Your strengths are your weaknesses.

The more you try to protect something, the more vulnerable you make it. — Don Winslow

Hell isn't having no choice.
It's having to make a choice between horrific things. — Don Winslow

They say that love conquers all. They're wrong, Keller thinks. Hate conquers all. It even conquers hate. — Don Winslow

Mateo runs up and Pablo hugs him. It's amazing, he thinks, that he never gets tired of that sensation. — Don Winslow

Their only weapon is shame, if the powerful can even feel it. — Don Winslow

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds. — Don Winslow

you do not avenge a murder by killing - you avenge it by living. — Don Winslow

Together, Ben and Chon make up a collective pacifist. Ben is the paci Chon is the fist. — Don Winslow

Why do women love to talk about love?" Giorgio asks. "Why don't men, is more the question," Ana says. — Don Winslow

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off. — Don Winslow

Perhaps we're not the greater good, but we are the lesser of evils. — Don Winslow

Now he seeks truth in silence. He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth, stillness, and God. — Don Winslow

Americans take their strength in victories, Mexicans' strength is in their ability to suffer loss. — Don Winslow

Deliver my soul from the sword; my love from the power of the dog. Psalms 22:20 — Don Winslow

The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there. — Don Winslow

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work. — Don Winslow

We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward. — Don Winslow

They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to. — Don Winslow

...'would have' is just another way of saying 'didn't. — Don Winslow

The past isn't in the past. It's always with us. In our history. Our minds, our blood. — Don Winslow

The bozo who's going to go early John Woo all over the manicured lawns and flower beds just to show he doesn't give a fuck about convention. — Don Winslow

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other. — Don Winslow

I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.' — Chuck Hogan

My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many. — Don Winslow

Nasty Ass got his street name because he always smells like he has a round in the chamber. If — Don Winslow

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. — Don Winslow

Grande is Mexico's harshest and most secure prison, and — Don Winslow

Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller. — Don Winslow

guy trips over the age thirty wire, he realizes that certain things he wanted in his life just aren't going to happen. — Don Winslow

the old "4-4-40" rough standard for human survival: four minutes without air, four days without water, forty days without food. — Don Winslow

Luis hopes for heaven.
Keller fears hell.
Vera fears only death, and that because he takes such pleasure in life. — Don Winslow

At least Barrera didn't stick the envelope into her panties. — Don Winslow

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore. And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I. — Don Winslow

Satan can only tempt you with what you already have. — Don Winslow

Mexico is a cemetery for secrets. — Don Winslow

Life, he muses, always gives you an excuse to take what you want anyway. — Don Winslow

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida. — Don Winslow

There is no water to put out the fire. Mi canto la esperanza. - Carlos Santana "Maria Maria — Don Winslow

If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you're going to have to kill them. — Don Winslow

Shit," Pablo says. — Don Winslow

If you don't want to see me again, say so. But it's not right to say nothing. It's not right to go silent. You know what to do. — Emily Winslow

You can either love," Pablo says, "or you can talk about it. You can't do both. — Don Winslow

Art can't decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it's a tragic, bloody farce. — Don Winslow

As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath. — Don Winslow

Maybe money can't buy happiness, but it can rent it for a long time. — Don Winslow

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem. — Don Winslow

The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither. — Don Winslow

Maybe, Keller thinks, I've become too used to solitude. Maybe I like it too much. — Don Winslow

This violent state of mind.
This violent state of mine. — Don Winslow

Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with.
And then don't do it. — Don Winslow

You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books. — Don Winslow

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. — Don Winslow

The people, they don't know what it takes sometimes to keep them safe and it's better that they don't. — Don Winslow

When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings. — Don Winslow

Giorgio cannot leave a bottle undrunk or an attractive woman unfucked, and those activities tend to get in the way of revolution. — Don Winslow

he's not sure how safe this meeting is going to be. And — Don Winslow

This is not a war on drugs. This is a war on the poor. This is a war on the poor and the powerless, the voiceless and the invisible, — Don Winslow

A great review is great. A bad review is the worst. — Don Winslow

What's the problem?" Fuck it, Art thought. Too late now. So he answered, "That we look at 'these people' like 'targets. — Don Winslow

And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you're safe. — Don Winslow

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. — Don Winslow

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya. — Don Winslow

Even a North American defense lawyer is right sometimes," Aguilar says. "Like a broken clock, twice a day. — Don Winslow

Beware the hospitality of the sociopath. — Don Winslow

You're a big boy," Ana observes, staring blankly into her cup. "You could have said no." "I stand with Oscar Wilde on the subject of temptation. — Don Winslow

The Mexicans have finally found a drug that white trash likes and can afford. And one thing you ain't never gonna run out of is white trash. — Don Winslow

That's all right, Neal thought. Every one of us is at least two people. — Don Winslow

She's also ruthless - it's love me or off with your head. She's the Red Queen — Don Winslow

A lot of existential questions will be answered just after the "Fuck." As in life itself. — Don Winslow

We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally. — Don Winslow

Keller has long believed that you have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky. — Don Winslow