The Outsider Quotes
"I hope letting Trevor bat for himself wasn't a mistake, Ter. He looks scared to death, and I don’t believe he could hit that kid’s speedball with a tennis racket."
"I'm not scared, but you won't be able to wear that shirt anymore, because blood doesn't come out, that's what my mom says."
"Don't be scared, it's just a bloody nose, I get them all the time."
"He asked if he could leave his van for a little while, which struck me as weird."
"Make it in time for me to catch the train to Dallas, and I’ll tip you twenty."
"There’s more to the job than that. Most of the time we’re there, circulating, making sure none of the guys get their hands on the girls."
"You should call in and tell your dispatcher I’m all set."
"I wish he had. And I wish I’d known then what I know now, about what he done."
"Bad news, Frankie’s dead! Good news, I won’t have to go shopping for a long … long … time!"
"Arlene Peterson was standing with her back to the sink, holding her considerable belly and nearly screaming with laughter."
"Frankie is dead and we’ve got a fucking Italian buffet!"
"Sorry cannot be your last word on this earth. I will not allow it."
"I want to ask you something," Howie said. "Just a shot in the dark."
"I don’t want to stand in front of Judge Horton in a sweaty shirt."
"We don’t want your help. Just get him inside."
"Don’t you want to know? Don’t you want to get this right?"
"He never did anything but good for this town, and they all hate him."
"My brother wasn’t enough, you had to kill my mother, too!"
"He’s probably going to lose it. You think a cameraman with one eye can still work?"
"I believe there’s another dozen thoughts in my head lined up behind each one I’m aware of."
"It’s a metaphor. We followed Terry’s tracks because that’s our job."
"The supernatural may exist in books and movies, but not in the real world."
"I made a mistake I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life."
"Probably that’s good. Probably you deserve to."
"Every harmonized vocal, each clever George Harrison riff, was a fresh wound."
"The full horror of the last eight days broke over Ralph in a wave."
"The world is full of strange nooks and crannies."
"If I get that shit, I'm going to take a bunch of pills and die while I still have enough working brain cells to remember what the pills are for."
"The things they really like are the things most of them remember the longest."
"Some serial killers – sex-killers, to use Candy Wilson’s term – keep getting away with it for years."
"Every case had an information highway running through it, and this one was washed out in at least two places."
"The difference between I have and I had was such a gulf."
"Time had passed, and time probably did heal all wounds, but God, some of them healed so slowly."
"I may not be Sherlock Holmes – or Tommy and Tuppence, for that matter – but I am good enough."
"I believe that gal believes." - Claude Bolton
"The Chamber of Sound stood up to it pretty well, although a bunch of the stalactites fell off the ceilin." - Lovie Bolton
"I don’t know what to believe." - Ralph Anderson
"There's a great deal we may never know." - Holly Gibney