Badlands Quotes
"It only takes eleven pounds of pressure placed on both carotid arteries for ten seconds to cause loss of consciousness. To completely close off the trachea, you need thirty-three pounds of pressure."
"She wore the dark blue suit she reserved for funerals and for testifying in court, a white blouse with a string of fake pearls, and low heels."
"If he'd just made a delivery and he's got a refrigerated trailer and he's rolling empty at the moment."
"All you have to do is shine a black light on the edge of a bill and that mark will show up. Otherwise, you’d never know."
"I’m Investigator Cassie Dewell from the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Department in Helena. But you knew that, right?"
"It’s such a shame that the trooper was such a deviant."
"Now I recognize him. It’s the Westergaard boy."
"You can’t detain me without charging me with a crime."
"I just never know what to do or say anymore. I was raised to open doors for women and carry their stuff. Now I’m always worried I’m offending them if I offer."
"If somebody would have told me twelve years ago when I got this job that I’d be a landlord as well as a sheriff, I woulda looked at them funny."
"It’s a long story. I can tell you all about it later."
"I tell all my new guys they’ll get ten years of experience in law enforcement in their first six months here. You’ll soon see why."
"The truth is this town was dying a slow death before they found oil. We were losing all our young people."
"My theory is there’s a lot of mourning going on beneath the surface and it builds up until they lash out."
"I was here when it started and I want to try to make sure the good guys win in the end."
"I’ve waited my whole life for something like this. I’ve already figured out a way to launder that marked cash."
"We don’t even know what our population is. It’s growing that fast."
"Unless they’re crossing the line seeking underage girls or getting involved with human traffickers, we’ll kind of look the other way. We’ve got bigger fish to fry."
"Money circulates—that’s why they call it money."
"If you do this right, you should be able to get through the whole pile in about a week."
"They’ll find it all balances out like it’s supposed to."
"How in the hell are they going to figure out where they came from?"
"The best way to proceed is to be straightforward and hardworking."
"I’ll stick to my part of the deal if you’ll do yours."
"It’s been a long day, and I’m proud of you all."
"Find that head before a member of the public does."
"It’s not supposed to get warmer than twenty below today."
"I don’t think we’re the only ones wondering where the shipment wound up."
"She’d pop enough popcorn to fill a grocery bag."
"The warmth of her apartment was thirty yards away."
"There’s a shitload of places to spend cash and get change."
"I’ll reach out to Cam. I’ve known him for a hell of a long time and we’ve got a lot of history."
"But we’ve got to move quick. I don’t want that meth to hit the streets tomorrow and I don’t want any more citizens butchered."
"I’m trying to get used to the fact that I might have a dirty cop right under my nose. I sure as hell don’t like the feeling."
"This state produced Roger Marris, Phil Jackson, and Louis L’Amour. We’re all-Americans here."
"Empty tankers rolling into Grimstad, full tankers rolling out. Millions of barrels of oil bound for every corner of the country."
"It’s all Tollefsen could do at times from his seat in the back of the room not to tell them all just to shut the hell up and calm down."
"Bachelor farmers without two nickels to rub together were becoming millionaires."
"If you’re gonna take me down, Jon, I’m taking this whole fucking town with me."
"But Willie thought Winkie should have sucked it up and shown a little dignity. A little North Dakota grit, as Willie liked to think of it."
"Her brain was scrambled and she couldn’t think."
"It damn sure looks like a sheriff’s department vehicle."
"I thought your mother was dumb but you’re even dumber, if that’s possible."
"If she’s even alive, and I doubt that, they will have lost the only thing they have to bargain with."
"The thoughts racing through his head made him reckless and manic."
"Kyle opened his mouth and roared. His cry came out high-pitched and it cracked in the middle, but it sounded to him like he was a wounded animal."
"Heroes don’t cry. Man up, little man. You need to be a hero."
"The only way I can keep him off the streets is to suspend him with pay while we call in the state boys to investigate an officer-involved shooting."
"We’re going to do it because we’re the good guys."
"You can throw me in prison in Bismarck and let all the gangbangers freeze to death in the Missouri River, but you can’t do nothin’ about demand. When there’s demand, there’ll be supply."
"What they didn’t understand was that Kyle wasn’t damaged. He was improved."
"He and Theodore Roosevelt had something in common. Kyle found himself smiling at that."