Quotes from Danielle Girard

how he gathered every morsel for later use as ammunition. His skill in this was impressive; he might not even be paying attention, and still, somehow, he absorbed details she shared. The most mundane, irrelevant facts were corrupted in his grip.

Schwartzman smiled, sharing his enthusiasm. When the morgue had installed a camera with a UV filter on a tripod for timed exposures to help her identify pre- and perimortem injury patterns under the skin, she'd been as excited as Roger was now. Of course, at the time she'd been surrounded by dead people in drawers, so she'd kept the excitement to herself.

collection of hobby boats that he'd built sat on one shelf, the only decoration. Hobby boats, too, reminded her of Marchek.

like this, questions other folks would have pretended were shocking and inappropriate.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it," Ava used to say, quoting Coelho. Now