B. The Bishops Pawn

The Bishops Pawn

Highlights

I learned a long time ago that people’s actions are nearly always less tidy than their minds. So I decide to be cautious. — location: 102

Love is heading toward your house, knowing that on the other side of the front door is a woman listening for your footsteps. — location: 212

numismatists. — location: 301

eidetic — location: 612

Being a lawyer and asking a million questions had taught me that conversations hated a vacuum. If the questioner didn’t rush in to fill the silence, the subject usually would do it for you, often to their regret. — location: 617

braggadocio — location: 805

He’d brought me here for a reason, so I decided to allow him the luxury of coming to the point when he was ready. — location: 1190

My grandfather taught me that the smartest chickens in the coop rarely clucked. — location: 1438

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. — location: 1593

“What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?’ — location: 1723

You have to learn the rules of the game, then you have to play better than everyone else. — location: 2052

This was the beginning of a pattern that would mark our relationship for many years to come. Sure, it was flawed, but we came to accept that rarely did either of us tell the other everything. My working relationship with Stephanie Nelle ran smooth but never straight. It also delivered results because we both possessed an iron purpose, and we were good at what we did. — location: 2128

And Lincoln was right. Do I not destroy my enemy when I make them my friend? — location: 2481

I watched Valdez shift in his chair. Coleen, too. This was like trying to keep frogs on a wheelbarrow. — location: 3128

I wondered what it took to live with the fact that you’d participated in the death of Martin Luther King Jr. The man had been a son, husband, father, minister, activist, Nobel laureate, icon. He helped change the face of America, leaving a mark on the entire world. Imagine what more he could have accomplished if he’d lived. — location: 3240

The arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice. — location: 3294

reconnoitered — location: 3606