Tell you what, just to prove I'm not, I'll let you top tonight. You'll be in charge. I'll be the one with handcuffs on.'Carry on like this and you won't be wrong, Merrick thought to himself.
Without work, without direction, his thoughts were like a hamster on a wheel, circling and dancing with no destination and no possibility of arrival. With
You know it's a bad case when the only way you can catch up on your sleep is to get unconscious.
It forced me to realise that I'd been blaming you for not being flawless. And none of us is flawless.' Another sigh. 'I was so angry with myself for what happened to Michael and Lucy that I had to tur...
Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power’ Romeo and Juliet, II, iii
If you want to last more than five minutes as a private investigator, you've got to have the instincts of a chameleon. Gumshoes that stand out in the crowd are as much use to the client as a chocolate...
It's a piece of cake, being a lawyer or a doctor or a computer systems analyst or an accountant. Libraries are full of books telling you how to do it. The only textbooks for private eyes are on fictio...
I failed her. And she's out of my life. I don't even know where she's living. What she's doing to get through the days. And I miss her. Every single day, I miss her.
We all make mistakes, Carol. Sometimes they're more expensive than others. But I don't deserve to lose you,' he said, spreading his hands in appeal.
I'm not into little boys till they're old enough to have their own credit card.
The hardest thing about being a grown up is realizing there are no magic formulas to release the ones we love from pain. Maybe that's why I enjoy computer games so much; you get to be God.
As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.
Thought
You take the lead. He'll open up more easily to a copper than a mumbo jumbo man
Everybody's got the right to go to hell in the handcart of their choice.
They both possessed a victimhood that had been conferred because they'd both been guilty of being female in a world where some men believed they deserved never to feel powerless.
To move forward, you have to accept the truth of a situation. Not persist in myth-making.
Cat's passion for atmospheric architecture was only just second to her passion for Henry.
Around five-eight, slim, good shoulders, narrow hips, legs and trunk in proportion, short dark hair, side parting, dark eyes, probably blue, shadows under the eyes, fair skin, average nose, wide mouth...
We make high demands on the people we expect to deliver justice, and we don’t always appreciate how much it eats away at them.
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