Edward Conlon Quotes

#1. On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.

Edward Conlon

#2. Do you like being a cop?"
"I love it, when it doesn't suck, sir.

Edward Conlon

#3. It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

Edward Conlon

#4. Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

Edward Conlon

#5. In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a "well-rounded detective" was a jibe around his weight.

Edward Conlon

#6. I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.

Edward Conlon

#7. I had to agree with one ex-boyfriend of one crackhead complainant who'd gone missing, when he told me with disdain, 'This is a whole big bunch of unbelievable!

Edward Conlon

#8. Later that day when I passed the Admin lieutenant and the Sargeant standing by the Desk, I said casually, "I'm leaving too, Sarge."
"Okay," he said, and I kept on walking.

Edward Conlon