We’re all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it’s always such a surprise. The
We could show them the most exquisite Ming vase, or a carved ivory screen from Persia, and they’d turn their backs and go straight for the human remains.
We are so good at killing each other, she thought. Yet we fail so miserably at love.
Think of what it means to manually strangle someone. How personal it is. The close contact. Skin to skin. Your hands against her flesh. Pressing her throat as you feel her life drain away.’ Rizzoli
There's a whole history that never appears in the Bible, Detective. A secret history you can only find in Canaanite or Hebrew legends. They talk about the marriage between Adam and a free-spirited wom...
The bush makes you see your real place in the world, says Johnny. Here, you’re reminded of what you really are. Animals, Elliot murmurs. Johnny nods. Animals.
So much of what passes for excitement in our lives cannot be anticipated, and we must learn to savor the spectacles as they come, and appreciate the rare thrills that punctuate the otherwise monotonou...
She remembered a poster of The Visible Woman hanging in her high school health class, revealing the organs in their anatomical positions. Ugly or beautiful, every woman is merely a package of organs
Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section.
Now they were probably telling one another: Yeah, I knew something wasn’t right. Everyone’s brilliant in retrospect.
No kiss, no embrace, could bring two people any closer than we are right now. The most intimate emotion two people can share is neither love nor desire but pain.
It is cold in my cell. Outside, the harsh winds of February are blowing and I am told it has once again begun to snow. I sit on my cot, a blanket draped over my shoulders, and remember how the delicio...
I find a package of spaghetti, and I remember seeing bacon and eggs and a block of Parmesan cheese in the refrigerator. I’ll make spaghetti carbonara, the perfect
How far have we strayed from our essential natures. Just the sight of blood can make some men faint, and people scurry to hide such horrors from the public eye, hosing down sidewalks where blood has s...
He had a son, but he died some years ago, on a foreign trip. His ex-wife’s dead, too, and I’ve never seen any woman there. Nora shook her head. It’s an awful thing to think about. Dead for four days a...
Hayatınızın yarısını tek bir hedefe adamış bir gençseniz, hedefinize nihayet ulaştığınızda geriye başaracağınız ne kalır ki?
Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.
Cesur mantar toplayıcıları vardır ve yaşlı mantar toplayıcıları vardır, ama yaşlı ve cesur mantar toplayıcıları hiç yoktur.
Catgut is a type of surgical thread made from the intestines of cows or sheep. So why do they call it catgut? asked Rizzoli. It goes back to the Middle Ages, when gut strings were used on musical inst...
But she couldn’t shake off her annoyance at her dad, at her brothers, at Father Donnelly, at every man who presumed to tell a woman what her duty was.