Quotes from Jeffery Deaver

I'm really not the cold fish everyone thinks I am.

Curiously, while drone operators are perhaps the safest of all combat troops physically, they have among the highest rates of depression and post-traumatic stress in the military and national security services. Sitting at a video console in Colorado or New York City, killing someone six thousand miles away and then collecting the kids at gymnastics or football practice, having dinner and sitting down to watch Dancing with the Stars in your suburban den was disorienting beyond belief.

I was disappointed. Voice analysis can tell a lot about the caller: gender, most of the time, national and regional roots, illnesses, even reasonable morphological deductions can be made about the shape of the nose, mouth and throat. But at least we had a confirmed spelling of the principal's name, which was a plus.

The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886.

The greatest single threat to an investigator is unfamiliarity with his environment.

Rhyme couldn't remember what he looked like. From his voice he sounded fit and athletic, but then Rhyme supposed he himself might seem like an Olympian to someone who couldn't see his destroyed body.

The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.

The pain, you know. It's one hell of a way to die.

At the front door I spit on the hinges to keep them from squealing and we eased it silently open.

Islands—of times when you're content, you don't think about the loss. Now it's like your world's underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water'll be there always but you'll find dry land

eager' and 'anxious' aren't the same, or how 'disinterested' doesn't mean 'uninterested.

Love, Colter Shaw had learned, could be an endlessly refillable prescription of madness.

Rhyme's eyes closed. His head dipped. But only a few millimeters. As with most great men, Lincoln Rhyme's gestures of defeat were very subtle.

When innocent people find themselves in situations that require the presence and protection of people like me, their reaction more often than not is as much bewilderment as fear. Mortality is tough to process. But

I want to say something," I told her. "It's important." "Under these circumstances," she said, with a dark grin, "one wouldn't really expect unimportant, now, would one?

Whatever else you could say about Jason Westerfield, grass didn't grow under the man's feet. A

Like most soldiers, he'd wielded a Black and Decker steam iron far more frequently than an M16.

Well," she said softly. "Just like a sculptor to get hurt by flying rock. Good thing you don't collect razor blades and knives.

Always thinking. This was one of the reasons he loved her.

I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time...chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one

God don't give out certain.

The best part about Omar was that he wasn't simply a decoy. Surrounding the robot was a grid of ultraviolet and microwave beams. When Loving or his partner, presumably from some distance, took up position and fired the typical three-burst round into Omar's head, empty and inexpensively replaceable, a computer would instantly correlate trajectory, speed and GPS coordinates and indicate on our handhelds where the shooter was, down to three feet. Would

A fool can throw a stone into a pond that a dozen wise men can't recover

His rules were unencumbered by my constraints—the Constitution and the laws promulgated thereunder. Still