Quotes from Jason Pinter

They say it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. I disagree.

I thanked her, and while normally I wouldn't be caught dead wearing sweaters so hideous they'd offend Bill Gates's fashion sense, beggars can't be choosers and all that.

Off in the distance, the Ringer watched the Ford Tundra drive off into the night before it disappeared around a bend in the road. There were few lights

Excuse me, but could we borrow a pen?" Joyce looked at me like I'd asked for her firstborn child, then took a Bic from behind her ear and handed it over. I looked at the pen, took a napkin and wiped it down. Who knew where her ears had been?

Nothing," she said. "But I've seen better handwriting from animals without opposable thumbs.

If the laws of division were correct, a Motel 3 would be half as good as Motel 6. And right they were. It resembled a two-story slab of pancake-colored timeshares, the paint looking like it hadn't received a second coat since before Sherwin married Williams.

In my relatively short time on this planet, I'd learned that there were two types of people. Those who were doomed to follow in whatever footsteps had been laid out for them, and those who were strong enough to carve their own path.

She sipped as she assembled the meal. The smell of garlic was heavenly. She broke the beef apart with a spatula, stirring to make sure it didn't burn.

Joe slipped his hand down to his holster, unbuckling his Glock. The metal felt cool, inviting, as though it had lain dormant for too long. He heard another snap, saw Denton's hand move from his hip. Finally they were about to confront Henry Parker, and both of their safeties were off.

A hole about six feet long, two feet wide, and four feet deep. A shovel lay beside the hole. She

Sometimes there are truths in fiction. In fantasy. Sometimes made-up stories tell us more about who we are than reality.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. —Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Marion Crane. The girl who just wanted a better life.

I watch a lot of Law & Order. Olivia Benson is my spirit animal.

at the Virgin megastore.

know about me via legal means. But you cannot demand that I provide you with it. And if you press,

Leonard Denton had a squeaky clean rep in the department, squeaky to the point where people almost assumed he would flip out one day and go postal. He was efficient and by the book, admirable qualities. But being admired and having admirable qualities were two totally different animals.

One thing Mauser leaned over the years was that students, almost to a one, viewed the world from the inside of a fishbowl. They had the bigger points covered—genocide in Kamchatka, illegal whale hunting in the Arctic Circle, shit like the. But if you asked about anything relevant to their lives they'd look at you with glazed eyes and go right back to sipping their double-mocha lattes.

We think this murder, Evelyn Boggs, and the Linklater homicide are all connected to Bennett Brice.