Black Notice Quotes
"Sunlight and beauty were for other people now, my life stark and without song."
"I saw beams of light picking out heat-shattered bones in soggy trash and water."
"I was humiliated, because beyond all things I feared losing control, and I just had."
"I can’t remember if you have acorns in Washington."
"I’m on Face the Nation again. More of the same. I’m so disgusted by it all, Kay."
"I just want him here. Oh, God, I want him here."
"Bodies donated by families to science are not used for demo autopsies."
"Usually people who died of natural causes or suicide."
"You ought to imagine the dead listening when you speak."
"Words will never hurt you. Because yours just hurt the hell out of me."
"These things ring in your head like a bell forever."
"They still clattered in with their stretchers."
"Areas of the body that had been covered by clothing were in much better shape."
"People like her may act nice, but deep down they think they’re God and have contempt for minions."
"You don’t just shoot your brains out when things turn to shit, do you hear me?"
"It’s getting in the last pissed-off word. It’s a big so there."
"We might see something that gives us a clue. But I will tell you I’m not open Wednesdays or Thursdays."
"If he was in and out of a lot of countries in a short period of time, that’s all I can think of."
"Rare. Not too many people have either one," I said.
"If you find anything in there, let me know, because I can’t."
"You must live with the memory. It is still present, Kay. You cannot run away from it. Don’t try."
"How could I not?" I said. "Not one of our finer moments."
"You must be Pit," I said as I opened the trunk to get out the plastic bag.
"Come on in," he replied in a relaxed way, as if nothing in the world was off kilter or worth worrying about.
"Don’t worry about her. She’s gentler than baby shampoo."
"I didn’t know you were bringing anybody with you," Pit commented.
"These dogs aren’t bad unless the owners want ’em to be. They’re just big babies."
"I didn’t like the way Taxi stared at me. I would never trust a pit bull no matter how gentle its owner said it was."
"Graffiti," Pit replied. "I bring a lot of that into my style."
"Most who get just one want to tuck it somewhere, usually out of sight. Like a heart on a butt or a boob."
"You can never really cover up an old tattoo."
"You attribute these two robbery-homicides to the Christmas season?"
"Details are sketchy at this time," her voice sounded inside my car.
"I attribute them to some squirrel who’s cold-blooded and got no conscience. He’ll do it again."
"What’s going to happen when people like Al Carson don’t call you anymore?"
"You’re smart, Marino," I added. "Use your head. This isn’t about turf or egos. This is about a woman who’s dead."
"I’m going right now. We’re getting goddamn screwed, Jack."
"No," I cut him off. "I’m going right now. We’re getting goddamn screwed, Jack."
"She’s got a shattered, comminuted fracture of the left femur."
"All you saw was burned-up bone in a stinking black fire hole."
"I’m so fucking tired of people giving up and leaving me."
"You can’t bring Benton back through killing."
"I felt it. How soft her skin was. And she bled."
"The only thing you've done for half your life, Agent Talley, is make it through adolescence in that Ivy League world of yours."
"She’s a very intelligent, ethical woman who’s had to work very hard against a system that’s not always on the side of justice."
"You think you can just pick up the phone and summon me here and ask me to just drop by the Paris morgue while some criminal cartel isn’t looking?"
"You’re asking me to tamper with the chain of evidence. You’re asking me to steal evidence, aren’t you?"
"I don’t give a damn whether you’re Interpol or Scotland Yard or the queen of England."
"I’ve been a servant to the law, to the principles of science and medicine, for half my life."
"If he accompanied you, that would raise suspicions, especially since he’s such a model of decorum."
"You may not have gone to law school, but I did. Maybe you can recite a penal code, but I know what it means."
"You don’t get to put me or Dr. Stvan or Marino in jeopardy."
"Tomorrow morning, Marino and I are flying home."
"The body usually cools about one and a half degrees an hour for the first eight hours."
"For sure she was murdered last night, that much we know."
"Beaten to death with some sort of instrument, maybe a tool. We don’t know."
"It’s not my place to voice opinions about who’s guilty of murder."
"I never heard her say anything about going out with someone."
"I guess so. She’s the same damn maniac who killed the girl in the Quik Cary."
"You ought to quit your day job, Captain, and come work with us."
"I’m going to put you out of your misery, you fucking son of a bitch!"
"There’s been enough killing. Please. No more."