Quotes from J.A. Konrath

If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off. Ways and means plus determination.

Bravery isn't the absence of fear. It's the ability to still function when fear overtakes you.

Bravery isn't the absence of fear. It's the ability to still function when fear overtakes you. Some people are naturally brave. Others, like me, learn to fake it. I still had no idea if faked bravery and real bravery were the same thing.

Jack is reacting rather than acting. And as long as she keeps doing that, she's not going to change fate.

You got it, sis. I promise I'll adhere to your strict moral code while committing grand theft auto." Hammett

I think I have something growing inside of me.

Im Schützengraben bleibt man nicht lange Atheist.

He wore a blazer, or more accurately, three XL blazers sewn together. I could fit my whole body into one of his pant legs. My tiny thirty-two caliber Seecamp in my boot heel wouldn't do shit to this man. If I shot him, the bullets would wet themselves and run away, crying. I

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Everyone believes there are horrible people doing horrible things; things we would never, ever do. But we do those same horrible things. There is no us and them. Only we.

The long drive to work gave me time to apply my makeup in the car and for my hair to air dry, providing it wasn't humid enough to give me the frizzies.

Dogs live in the moment. They don't think. They don't dwell on the future. They exist to meet their base needs. Eating. Sleeping. Breeding. Surviving. No worries. No regrets. Minimize effort, maximize pleasure.

Here's a good question for you—is greatness in a person born or made?" Tom didn't have an answer. "I think it's a combination." Bert scratched at the bandage on his chin. "Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn't a learned behavior. It's just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

I didn't like doctors. They always wanted to take something from you, like blood or a kidney, or stick something in you, like a probe or a needle. As

Life isn't worth living unless you have someone to share it with, Jacqueline. The good times, and the bad times. In sickness and in health. Even toward the end, she could still make my heart flutter when I looked at her.

She thought she'd hit rock bottom when she'd passed out in a disgusting gas station toilet, a needle stuck in her arm, lying in a puddle of someone else's urine for hours until the owner discovered her and called the police. But this—an arm's length from a crazy man who wanted to snack on her—this was the all time low.

So they profiled the Gingerbread Man with a curved spine." "It's just a hunch," I said.

People are bound to recognize the name Quasimodo." "Why is that?" "Because he rings a bell.

Life isn't worth living unless you have someone to share it with, Jacqueline. The good times, and the bad times. In sickness and in health.

I rubbed my eyes, getting some eyeliner on my fingers. For what I paid for eyeliner, it shouldn't come off that easily.

Satan's greatest feat is to convince us he doesn't exist. He doesn't want us to believe in him, and that makes it easier for him to spread his evil. Lucifer is the Master of Lies.

The cab smelled like curry, cigarettes, and body odor, and the safety glass between me and the driver had cracks in it.

He had to be putting me on. No one was this slow outside of HEE HAW.

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