Quotes from Faye Kellerman

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

That's so unfair!" Carson protested.

her legs around his waist. "Do it." He closed his eyes, losing himself in elation as he entered another universe. Her flesh around him—warm

variation on the words of the famous American president Abraham Lincoln: God must love stupid people because He certainly made a lot of them.

Guess you play the part of God long enough, you begin to believe your own method acting.

Decker looked at his sack lunch, sitting on the passenger's seat of his unmarked. Guess he was going to eat in the car

What a crock of bullshit, Decker thought. He felt guilty. Initially, she'd reacted with anger, which was healthy, and he'd quelled her fire. Now, she was internalizing the bad hand she'd been dealt. "Rina, none of this is your fault. And no one is after your kids. If they're out of the way

Innocent until proven guilty," Williams stated. Decker smiled. Spoken like a true American with his ass against the wall.

had enough time to think about it.

Judaism has a lot of rituals, a lot of nonnegotiable behaviors. But we also allow for a great deal of personal freedom. Personal freedom and its sister trait, personal responsibility, are what make the religion so hard. But they are also what make the religion so satisfying.

Simply this. If God was so sure that righteous Jewish men and women wouldn't murder, why did He bother with the sixth commandment?

No. She only dates Jews—religious Jews—if she dates at all. Her oldest boy, Sammy, sometimes talks to me. He says she doesn't go out.

She was pretty pissed at him." "Goddam fucking people," Decker muttered. "Stupid bitch. She looks the other way while he's out raping and beating up other women, but he kicks her precious poodle, and all of a sudden she decides he's a menace to society.

She was a bitch. They're all bitches. I'm telling you, they asked me to do it. They begged me.

Kikes!" Macko spit. "I wouldn't fuck those pieces of shit if they was the last bitches on earth." Decker's eyes blurred for a split second. When they refocused, he realized his hand was on the butt of his .38.

Besides, I could never spit in my parents' faces and suddenly declare myself a Jew, like my 'real' parents. It would upset them tremendously.

Roiters said, "I always felt that the kid had blood on his hands.

They ain't American. They're all spies for Israel, and they come here to bleed us of all our money and

Theirs was a relationship that could never be. But she couldn't help her feelings.

Anti-Semitism was nothing new to him. He'd grown up a good ole boy in Gainesville, where there was little direct contact with Jews but still a lot of prejudice. The locals regarded decadent Miami as a pinko watering hole for kikes, spics, and niggers.

No," Decker said. "Ask God for forgiveness, Akiva," Schulman said. "Hakodosh Boroch Hu is the only one who can give you solace. I've told you that before." He stood up, motioned Decker to do the same thing. The old man embraced him tightly, then looked him in the eye. Still holding him, he said, "Then, my boy, have the courage to forgive yourself." He broke away. "Enough of the past. Let's learn a little Talmud.

Mann macht und Gott lacht." "Which means?" "Man makes plans and God laughs.

Two days?" Decker looked at