Jeffery Deaver Quotes

You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the res...

Report! Freddy shouted. His fellow agents called back about their condition. They were all accounted for. One had a slight burn and another had been cut, breaking through a window to flood the basemen...

God don't give out certain.

The pictures slipped past again and I kept looking at them. Some of the scans were sepia pictures, going back a hundred years; some were black-and-white; some were oversaturated, from the sixties and...

We’re defined and enlivened by what opposes us. And when the Watchmaker died, Lincoln Rhyme died a bit too.

Was a lean, unsmiling man, a dusting of short gray hair on his head.

It's a tough life, she'd said. It's the little things that get us through the day.

Natural selection applies to criminal activity, as well as to newts and simians.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

Ed McBain

But it works that way if it works.

This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. —ARISTOTLE

I went to the CD player, choosing some soft and soothing soprano sax, courtesy of the late Art Porter.

What’d he do? Your stepfather?

He’d never been a people person. He was a science person. A mind person.

I sat for a moment and again looked out the window of my organization’s unmarked headquarters in Old Town Alexandria, the building aggressively ugly, 1970s ugly. I stared at a wedge of grass, an antiq...

Joanne’s federal government employment history had been hidden very efficiently, of course. DuBois hadn’t found anything specific about what the woman or her coworkers did. But you could deduce their...

Because of her frenetic nature and dancing mind, she chatted up a storm with the subjects she interviewed, who ended up overwhelmed or intimidated. Or captivated.

Well, to the matter at hand, Westerfield said. I was pretty surprised the whole morass rose as high as it did. He caught that mixed metaphor, at least, and hesitated. Then: A U.S. senator. Hm. His voi...

I didn’t blame him one bit. I’d give them up too, in circumstances like that. Abe Fallow himself said to me when I joined our organization, Corte, listen. Rule number one, and it’s a rule we don’t men...