Quotes from Tami Hoag

MISOGYNISTIC PRICK," Nikki muttered as she descended Nilsen's front steps. "That's redundant," Seley pointed out. "For emphasis," Nikki said

Anybody can look like a genius if they have all the answers ahead of time," Quinn said.

never underestimate the power of the American public to utterly shock and disappoint you.

Because the brain stores emotional memories and the physical details of what happened in two separate places. This is oversimplifying

For guys, life was nothing but one big pissing contest. It was a pure damn wonder women didn't take over the world while men were busy trying to prove who had the biggest dick. He

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. He had used the John Burroughs quote as a mantra

Homicide detectives were to medical examiners what four-year-old children were to overworked mothers.

A handful of visits. A series of days. Then she would be gone, with a life of her own, a family of her own. And

the flap on his shirt pocket. Grumbling

the thing a man fears most from a woman is that she'll laugh at him, and the thing a woman most fears from a man is that he'll kill her.

drawing another chorus of groans. "Bondurant won't talk to us, and I don't like that. He told

rolling in, even though I knew better.

It's the age of managed care. These places usually manage not to care one second longer than they have to.

Sometimes, our best just isn't good enough ? not for those around us, not for those who love us, not for ourselves.

Vi?u sav? zi?? nomierin?ja atrašan?s šaj?, lielaj?, drošaj?, skaistaj? ?k?, kura bija pilna ar to, kas vi?am patika, - ar gr?mat?m. Vi?u iesk?va zin?šanas, gudr?ba, saj?sma, nosl?pumi, kas pieder?ja vi?am par niec?gu cenu- prasmi las?t v?rdus.

it was almost as if she split herself into two entirely separate beings—her body-being going through the motions while her mind-being stood off to the side and watched. She didn't like that feeling. It frightened her. When she felt that way, a crazy panic gripped her that someone would notice there were two of her, and she would be revealed for the fraud and the freak that she was.

If there was one thing from which people never recovered, it was childhood. If there was one tie that could never truly be broken, for good or for ill, it was to family.

Sabin get his way. He wanted Kovac to

The endless cycle of guilt: the need to escape it and the equally desperate need to cling to it.

If I'm gonna get fired for drinking on the job, I'm going to go down drinking a man's drink, Kovac said, raising his mug. Belching and farting all the way. Damn straight. You're a man's man, my friend. A credit to our gender. I'm proud to know you.

Some days life just sucked when you were a decent human being.

You can go anywhere in a book. Be anyone. And life has to make sense in a book. Real life doesn't have to make sense. In real life good people can turn out to be bad people, and bad people can get away with murder...and worse. I'll take a good book over that any day.

You make serious enemies when you turn on your own kind.

nose and a straight brow