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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 287be78 | A few were journalists and one a novelist, who wanted to get it right. (Rhyme welcomed his presence; he himself was the subject of a series of novels based on cases he'd run and had written the author on several occasions about misrepresentations of real crime scene work. "Must you sensationalize?")" | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 89df4d2 | Erle Stanley Gardner | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 9bc63a8 | Ed Gorman | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| dfe9046 | Ed McBain | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| ab42c59 | Anna Katharine Green | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| a4c6cf5 | Remember, people hassle you in all sorts of different ways. Don't assume they're right and you're wrong just because they know something you don't. The question is: Do you need to know it to do a better job? Then learn it. If not, it's a distraction and to hell with it. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 22d6603 | I went to the CD player, choosing some soft and soothing soprano sax, courtesy of the late Art Porter. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 84cf554 | NYPD check you out. So you're clean." She supposed she" | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 42b3e0b | That's what happens in love. In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals--moods, loves, fears, angers--can't be hidden. That's the contract. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| e310f0a | novels Cry Hard, Cry Fast (1955), Murdering the Wind (1956), Slam the Big Door (1960), A Flash of Green (1962), and the astonishingly good The End of the Night (1960) were among his finest work. There were also an imposing number of other paperback originals that were also first-rate crime stories--among them Dead, Low Tide (1953) and One Monday We Killed Them All (1961) | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 9e25c71 | His best work bore the stamp of John O'Hara and John P. Marquand. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 53b049a | THE LITTLE HOUSE AT CROIX-ROUSSE Georges Simenon | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| adf96d3 | loved the sound of the rain on the metal roof | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 18a22f7 | Ross Macdonald | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 3121b8d | The Way Some People Die (1951), The Ivory Grin (1952), and The Far Side of the Dollar (1965) are particularly good novels. The Chill (1964) | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 50690f4 | from a shoe print | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 0fa2d85 | the Matt Scudder novels (dark), including Eight Million Ways to Die, The Devil Knows You're Dead, and the Edgar-winning A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, and the Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries (humorous), including The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart, and The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 84095d2 | The office, high above downtown Manhattan, looked out over Jersey. The crap in the air made the sunset absolutely beautiful. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| a36e24f | Anthony Boucher (1911-1968) was one of the most remarkable figures ever produced by the mystery genre. And | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 57e3a50 | James M. Cain (1892-1977) wrote two indisputable masterpieces, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 460269f | Colter Shaw was quiet by nature, yet when working a job he intentionally rambled. He'd found that this put people at ease. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 3182895 | Sometimes you just find yourself standing in need to do something. No matter it seems hopeless. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| ad04df3 | Not dying isn't the same as being alive. You're only alive when you're surviving. And you only survive when there's a risk there's something you can lose. The more you risk losing, the more you're alive. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 942b7a1 | Already sweating though it was just nine in the morning, Amelia Sachs pushed through a stand of tall grass. She was walking the strip search--what the Crime Scene people called it--an S-shaped pattern. Nothing. She bent her head to the speaker/mike pinned to her navy-blue uniform blouse. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 3d50765 | It ain't only the colored folks has the blues; there's many a white man that's had 'em. | Bill Monroe | ||
| 84af353 | Like a voice crying in the wilderness, we beg members of the foreign press to earn their wages honestly, and suggest that if they must lie they do so about their own countries, ." (Notice displayed on the wall of the Ministry of Defence press office, El Salvador, 1983.)" | Patrick Marnham | ||
| b840c0c | But like many young men who grow up as privileged as Jack of Diamonds, he didn't suspect his own ignorance. | Frank Beddor | ||
| ee72647 | The word "hillbilly", I've never liked that, and I've never used that in my music. | Bill Monroe | ||
| 19d27f6 | No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism. | Bill Moyers | ||
| 1c266a3 | Should' is my all time least favorite | inspirational should words | Frank Beddor | |
| 72b37d2 | I tell you to think black thoughts and you come up with that!?" the lieutenant had screamed. "Is a guinea pig bad? Do you consider a guinea pig the representation of all that's evil?" "Maybe...if it's an evil guinea pig?" | Frank Beddor | ||
| d27302b | What's the rush, little fellow?" asked Bibwit Harte. "What seems to be the trouble?" "You're the little fellow!" Jack said. "Hmm, well...in the grand scheme of the cosmos, I am a little fellow. We're all quite little, if you think about it that way. Good point, Jack." | Frank Beddor | ||
| 8424782 | It's all in your head," Genevieve said. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 686628a | My eyes dawdled across the missalette. I had never noticed before that the official title of the 'Lord have mercy' prayer was the gracious phrase 'Invitation to Sorrow'. Hey there, Sorrow, how've you been keeping? Come on in. If your bike doesn't have lights you can always crash on our sofa tonight. Oh, so you'll be staying a while, Sorrow? Planning to get to know me better? Grand, so. There's tea in the pot. All | Emma Donoghue | ||
| d922f19 | Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country. | Bill Moyers | ||
| b1200cc | disse Serena. | Ron Rash | ||
| 55d03d1 | After hours of wearing stifling suits while seated on rigid pews and high-backed dining chairs, to enter water and splay our limbs was freeing. The midday sun fell full on the pool, so when we waded in up to our waists, heat and cold balanced as if by a carpenter's level. That was the best sensation, knowing in a moment, but not quite yet, I'd dive into cold but emerge into warmth. Years later at Wake Forest, when I still believed I might c.. | Ron Rash | ||
| 6eb650b | Another memory comes, not of the final time I saw Ligeia but a week before she disappeared, something mundane yet vivid. The mystery of memory. There's surely some scientific explanation for why the brain decides Don't let go of this. I've read novels and cannot recall a single character's name and yet I remember a red bicycle glanced once in a hardware-store window, a mole on a stranger's chin, a kitchen match lying beside a hearth. These .. | Ron Rash | ||
| 73f2159 | Of course, who can forget that first love, or first sex, or first drink - especially if they all occur together. I also remember how, after Ligeia had left our lives, I'd worried for months that she might reappear and tell Bill what I'd never confessed to him. But after a while nostalgia supplanted guilt and our summer at Panther Creek became more a tender coming-of-age story, a summer of love complete with bucolic setting. | Ron Rash | ||
| 7735c2c | So people surprise us. They can lie to each other, as my brother had done to me, and as I had lied to him that September evening at Panther Creek, and now it appeared those two lies could only lead to one imponderable truth. | Ron Rash | ||
| 4ac4446 | The name's Old Testament derivation did not surprise him. Campbell's first name was Exra, and there was an Absalom and a Solomon in the camp. But no Lukes or Matthews, which Buchanan had once noted, telling Pemberton that from his research the highlanders tended to live more by the Old Testament than the New. | Ron Rash | ||
| e37f505 | Sitting watching Anna's eyelids flicker some hours later, Lib found herself longing for the sleep she should have had that afternoon. But this was an old battle, and like any nurse, she knew she could win if she spoke to herself severely enough. The | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 9e50f65 | News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity." | Bill Moyers | ||
| e40656f | People who don't believe in government are likely to defile government. | Bill Moyers |