Quotes from Jonathan Kellerman

Tonight, the choice was obvious.

Icy people often freeze themselves in order to hold in check a volcanic stew of disturbing and conflictual feelings. Emotional hibernation, if you will. Crack the ice and the stuff inside comes pouring out with all the discipline of molten lava.

Sometimes things don't fall into place just because you do a good job.

Wide-cut slacks gave her a sunken appearance from behind, calling to mind an old remark of Moffett's. Legs for days but ass for the next five minutes.

But in the words of a great philosopher, you can't always get what you want.

I'll buy lunch." "Not Hungry." I laughed. He said, "I can't stand when you do that." "Do what?" "Assume I'm ruled by my digestive system." "God forbid," I said, "Want me to drive? Think T-bone.

It's simply not relevant to my role as an advocate, and even to begin to think along those lines would hamper me in the execution of my duties.

That was the thing about knowing people's secrets: It could make them not like you.

a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected. The Butcher's Theater

He called Alex Shimoff, a Hollenbeck detective with serious artistic talent whom he'd used before. When Shimoff's cell and home lines didn't pick up, he left a message and tried Petra Connor at Hollywood Division. Same story.

together." "Barone could have been

an old French recording of Ida Presti, possibly the greatest guitarist who ever lived

Overweening arrogance and why not? No one had told him no for a very long time.

The slab rocked hard, stopped, then began rotating, very slowly. Barely making a full arc before continuing until it was perpendicular with the floor. It came to a halt, shaking the floor. I tried to move it; locked into place. Rectangular opening, four feet by two. Dark, but

Surely there were other new and exciting methods. No species on earth outdoes humans for innovation, especially when it comes to stealing other people's shit.

What they shared was indelible. More than victory, it was trauma that united men.

No one spoke all the way to Hollywood.

People had their own lives. Her children had gone and gotten children for themselves. They'd found places in the world. That alone was proof of a life well lived.

I'm an optimist who keeps my goals narrow.

Huge blue eyes awned by false lashes that could've been fashioned from tarantula legs.

rim of flab between navel and groin.

Zeigarnik. She was a Russian psychologist who discovered that people develop tension for unfinished business. They named it after her. The Zeigarnik effect. Like most overachievers I've got a big one.

You can die merging onto the freeway. You can choke on your take-out salad.

Either live in thrall to statistics or make them your friends.