“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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“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth. What remains in the bum or studiedly jocular desperation of one who is aware of the obscene Presence in the corner of the room and knows that the door is locked, that there aren’t any windows. And now the thing bears down on him. He feels a hand on his sleeve, smells a stinking breath, as the executioner’s assistant leans almost amorously toward him. “Your turn next, brother. Kindly step this way.” And in an instant his quiet terror is transmuted into a frenzy as violent as it is futile. There is no longer a man among his fellow men, no longer a rational being speaking articulately to other rational beings; there is only a lacerated animal, screaming and struggling in the trap. For in the end fear casts out even a man’s humanity. And fear, my good friends, fear is the very basis and foundation of modern life. Fear of the much touted technology which, while it raises out standard of living, increases the probability of our violently dying. Fear of the science which takes away the one hand even more than what it so profusely gives with the other. Fear of the demonstrably fatal institutions for while, in our suicidal loyalty, we are ready to kill and die. Fear of the Great Men whom we have raised, and by popular acclaim, to a power which they use, inevitably, to murder and enslave us. Fear of the war we don’t want yet do everything we can to bring about.”
― Aldous Huxley, quote from Ape and Essence
“He rolled her to her back and used his hands, mouth, and tongue on her, all over her, and she was greedy for that too. Arching against him, her hands coaxing and demanding, her nails scraping or diving into his hair to hold him to her.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from With Everything I Am
“Love knows not distance; It hath no continent; Its eyes are for the stars.”
― Lucinda Riley, quote from The Seven Sisters
“We are proposing that the concepts that occur in metaphorical definitions are those that correspond to natural kinds of experience. Judging by the concepts that are defined by the metaphors we have uncovered so far, the following would be examples of concepts for natural kinds of experience in our culture: LOVE, TIME, IDEAS, UNDERSTANDING, ARGUMENTS, LABOR, HAPPINESS, HEALTH, CONTROL, STATUS, MORALITY, etc. These are concepts that require metaphorical definition, since they are not clearly enough delineated in their own terms to satisfy the purposes of our day-to-day functioning.”
― George Lakoff, quote from Metaphors We Live By
“For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.”
― N.T. Wright, quote from Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
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