Jeffery Deaver Quotes

What would it be like to tattoo a living, beating heart? Could it be done?

You know what he was telling me just the other day? What? Korea, right, you’d think it was tea, tea, tea. Like China and Japan. But the last emperor of Korea, his name was Sunjong, the nineteen twenti...

From a shoe print

And him? I looked toward the revived guard. Freddy said, Wants a lawyer like a baby wants a bottle.

But game theory only works when the rules are clearly set out ahead of time. In the Nash bargaining game here, neither of the players was aware of another rule presently at work: that what they were b...

Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of i...

Doctor, do you read the Harry Potter books? Well, as a matter of fact, yes, I have. The fourth was my favorite. What was yours? Umm, I don’t know really. Is it possible, the prosecutor asked the witne...

Donald E. Westlake It’s an accepted fact that Donald E. Westlake has excelled at every single sub-genre the mystery field has to offer—humorous books (Scared Monster); terrifying books (The Ax, about...

Family is about love and affection but about friction and separation, too. Yet, with work and luck, the distances—geographic and emotional—can be shrunk, even made to vanish.

Finally, I pointed to the picture on the left. That one. Why? I hadn’t known I had to show my work. I don’t know; I just do. Uh-uh, commit. I really don’t know. They’re both nice. I glanced up the hal...

Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories (1997),

I WAS SITTING in one of our director’s scuffed chairs next to a man who clearly knew me, since he’d nodded with some familiarity when I entered. I couldn’t, however, place him beyond his being a feder...

I criminalisti adorano i sospetti che soffrono di malattie.

I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.

Inspiring isn’t the same as plotting.

Islands—of times when you’re content, you don’t think about the loss. Now it’s like your world’s underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water’ll be there always bu...

I’m not a bad person. Zagaev looked up at me with imploring eyes. Claims of ethical purity are a common strategy in games like this. But they’re paper, forever losing to scissors.

Loving was playing a Bayesian game now, one modeled on imperfect information.

Never kill an animal but for three reasons: for food or hide, for defense, for mercy.

We don't have enough time to move fast