“She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“I needed him here like I needed a yeast infection.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“He looked like a man on his way to a prostate exam.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“From time to time the human species spawns predators that feed on those around them. They’re not the species. They’re mutations of the species. In my opinion these freaks have no right to suck oxygen from the atmosphere. But they’re here, so I help cage them up and put them where they can’t hurt others. I make life safer for the folks who get up, go to work each day, raise their kids or their tomatoes, or their tropical fish, and watch the ball game in the evening. They are the human species.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“De vez en cuando la especie humana engendra depredadores que se alimentan de aquellos que los rodean. Pero no pertenecen a la especie: son mutaciones de ella. A mi parecer, esos monstruos no tienen derecho a respirar el oxígeno de la atmósfera. Pero están ahí, por lo que contribuyo a enjaularlos y a meterlos donde no puedan dañar a los otros. Consigo que la vida sea más segura para la gente que se levanta, acude al trabajo cada día, cría a sus hijos, cultiva sus tomates o cuida sus peces tropicales y ve los partidos de fútbol los domingos. Ésa es la especie humana.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“I’d smelled my moonshine sweetheart and seen his light in the eyes around me. I’d loved it once. Hell, I loved it still. But the enchantment would destruct. For me, any trifling dalliance and the affair would consume and overpower. So I’d walked away from it, with twelve slow steps. And I had stayed away. Having been lovers, we could never be friends. Tonight we’d almost been thrown into each other’s arms.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“Even in shabbiness there was room for pride.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“He strode into the hall, glanced at something on the”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“I’m always interested in the future. I plan to spend the rest of my life there.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“George Burns appeared again and said, "I'm always interested in the future. I plan to spend the rest of my life there.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“Ideas come easily to me, enacting them comes harder. I usually let things go. Perhaps it's an escape hatch, my way of allowing myself to double back and ease out the side door on a lot of my schemes. Irresolute about my social life, obsessive in my work.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“I am a woman whose moods are influenced by the weather, my outlook rising and falling with the barometer.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“He left as silently as he'd come. Pierre LaManche favored crepe-soled shoes, kept his pockets empty so nothing jangled or swished. Like a croc in a river he arrived and departed unannounced by auditory cues. Some of the staff found it unnerving.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“Good hair day. Bad hair day. Dead hair day.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“The larger buildings are now rented out and house schools and institutions more secular in mission where the Internet and fax machine replace Scripture and theological discourse as the working paradigm. Perhaps it's a good metaphor for modern society. We're too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“La muerte violenta no tolera ninguna intimidad. Saquea la propia dignidad tan rotundamente como ha arrebatado la vida. El cuerpo es manejado, escudriñado y fotografiado, y en cada paso del proceso se le aplica una nueva serie de dígitos. La víctima se convierte en parte de las pruebas, un objeto expuesto que se exhibe a policías, patólogos, especialistas forenses, abogados y, llegado el caso, jurados. Numeradlo; fotografiadlo; tomad muestras; ponedle una etiqueta en el pie. Aunque partícipe activa, no me resigno a aceptar lo impersonal del sistema. Es como un saqueo al nivel más personal. Por lo menos yo daría un nombre a esta víctima. La muerte en el anonimato no se sumaría a la lista de violaciones que él o ella deben sufrir.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“We’re too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
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“It was like trying to balance on a pair of knife blades. Who had thought of this mad form of travel in the first place? And why had no one locked them up before they passed their dangerous ideas on to others?”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Cold Fire
“Sarah felt like the bad girl in an eighties teen flick. The girl with big hair and a tight shirt who seduces the nice girl’s boyfriend but loses him in the end, because she’s shallow and tacky and no match for a sweet girl with good morals and freshly scrubbed skin.”
― Emily Maguire, quote from Taming the Beast
“In the movie that was her life, he'd just asked her to marry him, and the answer was yes, oh, yes. Definitely-yes!
Cue straitjacket.”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from It Had to Be You
“I don't think you understand," he said. "I'm going to have you, at any cost. Any cost, Jenny, even if you have to suffer on the way. If I can't force you, I'll persuade you— and I can be very persuasive.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Hunter
“There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, quote from The Way the Crow Flies
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