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Quotes About Suspicion

If the cops can't convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.
~ John Grisham
You're thinking somebody came over here, in the middle of a Category 4 hurricane, caught Nelson in the den, whacked him in the head, dragged his body outside, tried to clean up the blood, and then ran off? Seriously?
~ John Grisham
Pointing the finger at Ross Bannick was a terrifying act, not because she was afraid of being wrong, but because she feared the man himself.
~ John Grisham
drug charge. When I asked Lonnie about it
~ John Grisham
It was amazing how much cordiality could be created, and how much suspicion could be overlooked, by truckloads of cash. They
~ John Grisham
Why bother with a trial? If the cops can't convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.
~ John Grisham
crime? No, he was not. He insisted he knew nothing
~ John Grisham
James Lee Burke or Michael Connelly.
~ John Grisham
There are 562 recognized tribes in the U.S., but only about 200 operate casinos. There are approximately 150 additional tribes seeking recognition, but the Feds have grown suspicious. New tribes face an uphill battle getting recognized. Many critics claim their sudden pride in their heritage is driven solely by the desire to get into the casino business. Most Indians do not share in these riches and many still live in poverty.
~ John Grisham
Don't play dumb. Something's up. A new case
~ John Grisham
She spent a fortune on clothes and jewelry, more than you would expect from a person with her salary. She got a new secretary every other year because she didn't want anyone to get too close. She was aloof, distant, always tough, but she never suspected me because I kept my distance.
~ John Grisham
were they killed in the house and their bodies dragged outside?
~ John Guy
Cecil's minute is too good to be true. It is almost certainly misleading.
~ John Guy
believing that whatever else she did, she would be surrounded by treachery and deceit.
~ John Guy
Mary was betrayed by her own family, who failed to give her the benefit of the doubt.
~ John Guy
Two letters would be about Darnley's murder
~ John Guy
AT EIGHT O'CLOCK on the fatal Saturday evening, Darnley led Lord Ruthven and an accomplice through his private apartments
~ John Guy
What the hell is the matter with Eddie? Ruth was thinking. If he doesn't stop staring at me, I'm going to drive off the road! Hannah had also noticed that Eddie was staring at Ruth. What the hell is the matter with Eddie? Hannah was thinking. Since when did the asshole take an interest in a younger woman?
~ John Irving
Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he'd heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound - that's what he'd heard.
~ John Irving
Always be suspicious of easy work, Dr. Wilbur Larch once said to Homer Wells.
~ John Irving
Quería trabajar y vivir sola. Eso me convirtió en sexualmente sospechosa. Después deseé tener un hijo sin que para ello tuviera que compartir mi cuerpo ni mi vida. También eso me convirtió en sexualmente sospechosa.
~ John Irving
He stepped over to Vidian and turned the man's head. There, in his left ear, he saw a small dataport. A moment's revulsion struck and passed. "All right," he said. "Who wants to download Vidian's brain?
~ John Jackson Miller
Look at that. She think I got siphlus and TB and a hard-on and I gonna cut her up with a razor and lif her purse. Ooo-wee.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Y qué anda haciendo ahora esa Myrna? —preguntó con suspicacia la señora Reilly—. ¿Cómo es que escribe tanto? Ella sí que necesitaba un buen baño, qué chica aquella, Dios. —La psique de Myrna sólo puede tratar con el agua en un contexto oral. —¿Qué? —¿Querrías tener la bondad de dejar de gritar como una pescadera y largarte? ¿No tienes una botella de moscatel haciéndose en el horno?
~ John Kennedy Toole