“ Unless you're a hairdresser, you can't have a ponytail and call yourself Kenny when you're forty. Not in Michigan, anyway. Steve Hamilton
“ I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again. Steve Hamilton
“ This could be your big ticket, he said. You know what happens to you at art school?I shook my head.All that good natural technique you have? All that detail? They’ll beat it right out of you. They’ll… Steve Hamilton
“ It was a lesson I had taken most of my life to learn. Sometimes you have to let things go. Steve Hamilton
“ Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them. Steve Hamilton
“ No patience. No skill. No intelligence. Just brute strength. They have to break something. It’s the only way they know. Steve Hamilton
“ It’s not nearly far enough if you’ve already become famous for something you want to forget forever. Steve Hamilton
“ The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, is solving the riddle of a woman's heart. Steve Hamilton
“ So there it was. My big lesson of the day, something I’d take with me and never forget. The whole legal system – if you think it’s just a big set of rules, you’re dead wrong. It’s really a bunch of pe… Steve Hamilton
“ I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture. Steve Hamilton
“ Halliday put up his hand to stop him. He’d been taught long ago to trust his own instincts, the same instincts that went all the way back to the brief time in his career when he’d worked with the agen… Steve Hamilton
“ Said. Now that he’s found me again. Or he’d come himself. . . . Maria, why don’t you just sign away the full partnership money? Tell him you’ll take the twenty percent and forfeit the rest? She looked… Steve Hamilton
