H Is For Homicide Quotes
"Life was good. I was female, single, with money in my pocket and enough gas to get home."
"I always feel an affinity for others traveling at such an hour, as if we are all engaged in some form of clandestine activity."
"There's nothing quite as decadent as a day in the sack alone."
"Cops at a crime scene can be edgy little buggers and probably don't appreciate sudden moves."
"What is life that it can vanish so absolutely in such a short period of time?"
"He's not fond of private detectives. He considers us a useless, though tolerable, breed."
"The hard part about love is the hole it leaves when it's gone."
"It's human nature to trust, especially if you're honest to begin with."
"It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn."
"Sometimes I wonder why I continue to exercise with such diligence. Paranoia, perhaps."
"I stood at the mirror, fussing with my topknot until the toilet flushed and Bibianna emerged."
"I made a face. 'Not really. I got a line on an apartment about a block away from yours, but it isn't half as nice.'"
"Depends on what you're used to, I guess. Doesn't bother me."
"What is it about me that invites this kind of comment? Here I think of myself as a kick-ass private eye when other people apparently see me as a waif in need of mothering."
"I felt like a dog being groomed, but I liked the effect."
"I shook my head. 'I already toked up out in the parking lot before I came in.'"
"How do women know these things? More important, how come I don't?"
"Male eyes surveyed us from head to toe, grading us according to the size of our tits, how much butt we had hanging out, and how available we seemed."
"Her animation kicked up a notch, like the sudden surge in electric current preceding a blackout."
"I watched, as he moved in her direction, already engaging her in some kind of wordless foreplay."
"We live in a society piously concerned about the rights of criminals when their victims' lives have been trashed without any consideration of the price in pain and suffering."
"The air smelled of desire, like the sweet perfume of wet grass after a rainstorm."
"It wasn't smart. What was he going to do now? Retire to what?"
"I had a wild streak of my own born of grief at the loss of my parents when I was five."
"I was given to truancy myself back then, we formed an odd bond."
"There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death."
"The crowd was subdued and there was no suggestion of interference."
"Never had I so longed for a hot shower, dry clothes, my own bed."
"The beat officer in the second turned out to be a woman, tall, sturdily constructed."
"She peered out of the car window and I followed her gaze."
"I was hoping to see Tate, but he'd apparently been processed and taken to a cell."
"Her name is Diaz," I interjected. "She's upset about the shooting."
"A female jail officer came out to assist him."
"We can't afford to have you blundering in unawares."
"You follow the paper and it leads right to Raymond."
"I don't give a shit about Raymond Maldonado."
"I'm not trained for that stuff and it's too damn dangerous."
"I hate to be bullied and I don't relish being beaten with a stick as the motivation for my behavior."
"Don't worry about Dawna. We'll keep her out of circulation."
"You'd have some protective coloring despite the fact that you're not Hispanic yourself."
"You can't make anyone love you and you can't keep anyone from dying."
"What idiots, I thought. People deserve anything that happens to them."
"Her face was very pale, makeup looking stark against the pallor of her cheeks."
"I felt a squeezing in my stomach - not an ache, but some process that was almost like grief."
"My heart was pounding. Bibianna sank down on the couch, white-faced."
"He put a hand against my neck and Raymond turned to me with concern."
"I was beginning to believe it was all the mark's fault for being gullible and stupid."
"In the space of an hour, he'd gone from a vicious hoodlum to a scared-looking kid, overwhelmed by the ordeal that lay ahead of him."
"The facade jarred my sense of reality, placing me for a split second in the year 1887, past and future trading places briefly."
"The muted chords of an organ were barely audible, creating a subliminal mood of sorrow and solemnity."
"It seemed like an intimate moment, observing the dead, and since I hadn't known the man, it seemed inappropriate that I'd join his friends and family at the head of his coffin."
"Raymond's satin-wrapped packet had apparently contained religious items."
"The crowd was swelling. There was no sign of either of Raymond's brothers, but I did see three women I took to be his older sisters."
"I was hungry. I was bored. I was restless. I was scared."
"The plastic housing cracked, splitting open to expose the internal mechanism."
"Poor Raymond. No matter how many versions of the story he managed to create, he would never win her love and he'd never make it come out happily."
"Like every other 'victim' I've known, he clung to his 'one-down' position as justification for his abuse of other people."
"I thought about Parnell facedown in the parking lot with a bullet in his head."
"He seemed to live with the constant assault of invisible rubber hammers, which rapped him randomly at all hours of the day."
"I was jolted awake at eight by a banging on the front door."
"Whatever moments you might have shared get buried under layers of hostility and indifference."
"It's the same look you get from a lover when he's moved on to someone new."
"The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent."
"Once I got the relevant information back to Dolan, I was out of there."
"For ten cents I would have blown that motherfucker away."