Quotes from ALLISON BRENNAN

Even her heart lied to her...

This is the natural next step for you. Or are you going to be satisfied running around the country solving crimes like Nancy Drew on steroids?

Some people are permanently broken. Like Humpty Dumpty, no one can put you back together again. ...But I'm not broken. I'm exactly the way I want to be.

Trouble finds us, Sean. That doesn't mean we shouldn't go away. Hawaii, maybe. What's the homicide rate in Hawaii? Probably low. It's too pretty a place for people to be violent.

You risked your life - your life that you promised to me - for the greater good.

She would survive because that was what she did. But the pain of a loss--the grief for something she could never have--would haunt her.

Victory is sweet, but sweeter when your opponent is butt-ass naked in defeat.

You need to have faith and trust, Moira. And a little bit of pixie dust?

So why isn't the world overrun with evil spirits? Moira stared at her, a half-smile on her face. Who says it isn't?

You don't believe in miracles. Sure I do. I just haven't seen any lately.

People believe what they want to believe. They see no evil because they don't want to. But evil is out there, and this is the result. The holy man gestured to the dead girls. You might not see the evil, Officer Kincaid, but you can see its handiwork right here.

We can't save everyone, so we have to do what we can when we can.

The truth may be inconvenient, but it's better than anything else.

Her fear was palatable: she tasted it, her pores oozed it, her hair tingled. Why

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. —JOHN WEBSTER Grant

Wherever you are, I will be happy as long as I'm with you." August 2009 Dear Reader: For twelve books, I've written about the types of evil men and women commit against their fellow human

Promises didn't mean much...Anything could happen when all was said and done.

You can't go back. You can't have what was stolen. Just forget...

They were often convoluted, and unless it was a state-of-the-art facility, they'd layer new systems on top of the old, ultimately spending more to force everything to work, rather than using that money on the front end to get a new, better system that would save time and money in the future.

problems in her own office; maybe because

She left WCF and stepped into the still, chilly air. She loved walking and didn't even mind the cold that much—though she still missed sunny, temperate So-Cal.

He had to get out, get some space between him and the world, just to breathe.

He wanted to break her? She couldn't be broken. She wouldn't ALLOW herself to be broken.

She was so alone. Dead to the world. No one to love. No one who loved her.