Amateur Sleuth Quotes

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

Remember what I told you about family secrets.” People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman’s rocking didn’t change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room.

Death by misadventure sounds like a hopeful possibility.--Marjorie Branell-Markson

What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?

Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

Even in death, her mother was winning.

She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.