“Another thirty seconds passed, walking slowly by, arms outstretched like a zombie.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 220
Spin Dry
“Jon had a particular technique for situations like this one. While some attorneys would press their advantage with follow-up questions, Jon would just let witnesses who had done this kind of thing to themselves twist slowly in the wind, air-drying as they spun.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 220
Stifling the Natural Reaction
“Connor Connorson began by calling Isadora Meadows to the stand, and he tried to do it in a subdued but dramatic way. And if you were already on his side, he succeeded. If you were Stephanie Hunt, you had to bite the fleshy part of your hand to keep from laughing”
Ride, Sally, Ride, pp. 215-216
Admitted to That Bar
“Gonzo law had its appealing side. If you were going to argue cases before the Red Queen from Alice, you might as well enjoy yourself there.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 213
As They Were Relatively Uncommon
“Judge Murray looked over at Jon, genuinely interested He was ill-accustomed to relevant questions, given the kind of job he had.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 212.
Like Time and Tide
“The judge had places to be, for at the Clifton Garden County Club, the scheduled tee times wait for no man.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 210
A Study in Contrasts
“Judge Murray sat behind a dark cherry-colored bench, crafted in another era. It was a work of artisanship and beauty, as if calculated to contrast sharply with the decisions that had been handed down from that same bench over the previous twenty years. The judicial decisions were mostly press wood with an oak veneer.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 210
The Worst Kind of Warmth
“The laughter was hollow, the phoniness transparent, the warmth chilly”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 202
And One on the Angry Side
“He was not mistaken about the state of his forehead either. An angry welt of generally circular aspect stared back out at him from the mirror. He looked like a Hindu god of war.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 198
Because They Were Curious
“But inside, his head felt like a baseball had just collided with a nest of Asian giant hornets in the there, a nest that was on the large side, and all the hornets had just come outside to inquire about the baseball.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 194