Ya Fiction Quotes

You're actually each other's wingman. You never leave your partner vulnerable." - Graham Warner, husband of fun-loving seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner

Look at this, Grace, " Peg's e-mail said. "He's entrancing those people. I just realized. Taking them out of themselves. Ty is sort of like a medicine man. A shaman. P.S. Have you called him?

I like these games we play, the ones that involve our heads and our hearts ~ Page 212

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example.

Listen, we got two stiffs and a river of red in a villa in Herne Bay...

What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.

Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge

I hate unbreakable alibis--they are usually the first to crack. --Hugo Anstead

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

A story is a wondrous invention.

One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

A pawn only needs to move five spaces to become the queen" - from Bhendi Bazaar

The hotel was guest-friendly with hourly rates and had enough room to swing a cat, if it were a small cat and you wanted to swing it.

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.

His voice as smooth as silk, Grant started into his standard crowd-pleaser: Sinatra’s 'My Kind of Town.

Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.

@The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.

False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

Have faith. Ye've so much for everyone else. Why not save some for yerself once in a while?

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.

War is a terrible, bloody thing.

Outside, the dogs whine over the wind. They sense the wolves - they sense the wild. It calls to them, like it calls to me, and I wonder sometimes if we are the only ones who hear it.

Use your strength, but always remember that any strengthmay become a weakness.

Angelo, " he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.

When you get the coffee from the store, does it come in a great big metal can?'He beamed. 'Absolutely.'That was all I needed to hear. "Tea. A cup of tea.

Sometimes death is even better than to confess a secret.

The best way of keeping a low profile was to immerse himself in the mundane. Act like them, talk like them. A smile, a joke was all it took - at least during the day. The night was his own.

Some say the bible teaches that with our tongues we can speak, set things into motion both good and bad, life and death. What we bind and loose on earth will be bound and loosed in heaven.

That's the thing about digging holes, ” Quinn said. “There are no assurances you'll find what you want—or want what you find.

Too often people mistake monsters for gods.

I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.

Oh but it is Mr Bernstein, it is the ultimate game. And, once you take this folder you will have precisely 14 days in which to decide whether or not you would like to play.

Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.

The law isn't merciful.

I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws.

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. - Eighth Amendment, United States Constitution

Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

Never diagnosed the enemy before.

As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.

Nature is cheaper than therapy.

If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.

Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

Shame comes in different doses.

It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.