Quotes from Jonathan Kellerman

Not a word about the tiny bones. I wondered why a married woman would avoid the plural form.

Grumbling, grimacing, and mumbled curses peak during the muddled middle of murder investigations, when promising leads break their promises.

And he laughs and winks again and says, 'Happy endings, Earl, happy endings.' As if we're sharing his nasty secret and he thinks I'm not free to divulge it because he's my client." Milo said, "You think he had something to

A certificate declared the fare BEST BREAKFAST IN TRUCKEE 1994. In celebration of this achievement, the bathroom hadn't been cleaned since.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Just because others have it worse doesn't mean you have to suffer in silence.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there's always a key out there that opens it.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

I saw this cartoon in the paper, once. That Viking, Hagar the Horrible? He's standing on the mountaintop, holding his hands to the heavens, shouting "Why me?" And down from the heavens comes the answer: "Why not?" Maybe that's the ultimate truth; what right to do I have to expect a smooth ride?

Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.

At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.

Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann

They say you don't grow up until you lose your parents. Frankly, I'd prefer to be immature.

I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)

The symptoms of madness can often be altered with medication, but there's no therapy for evil.

Pessimism is not good for the soul." "I sold my soul years ago." "To whom?" "The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

Nice concept. -What is? -Retreating. Getting away from the grind. -Oh, you never do. You just change gears.

Her basic disposition was a good deal sunnier than mine. But I was a better faker.