Quotes from Iris Johansen

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

sounds uncomfortably like a prison.

He chuckled as he realized how he'd rationalized betrayal into gallantry. Damn, he was a good lawyer. But

about death and violence. Noah would deny it.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

didn't think of it." She supposed she should have

Enough of this soul-searching. What would be, would be. She could only do what she thought was right.

Taking a life diminishes the taker. - Kadar den Arnaud

He stopped. "You're upset. I'll shut up and leave you

If you think me weak, bring forth your champion and let me do battle with him. And kill in that childish way of the Franks? Full of pomp and bravado? We are masters of death here. We do not play at it. - Ware & Sinan

promise you, Jules. Would I let you down?

I believe he's a brilliant man with a monstrous self-love and no soul. Put those qualities together, and there are roots planted for a morbid blossoming.

I'd want to hold you if you were going to lead me down to hell. Because if that's where you were, that's where I'd want to be.

was everything. Eve

Thank you," he said politely. "Though I doubt if such extreme measures were necessary in my case. I'm not a warlike man." "Too much effort?" Lani asked. He beamed at her. "Exactly. How pleasant to be understood.

was sometimes good to revisit what you were so that you could compare it to what you had become.

Gradually, she had realized that this was just another wound that would heal if she didn't hold it close, but released the pain and not let it poison her.

I can't do anything else but my

By assuming a cheerful outlook you could sometimes fool even yourself into believing everything was all right.

the mate. "Next time." She didn't answer as she turned

why do you think that?

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents are even more balls