Finlay Donovan Is Killing It Quotes
"It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by eight thirty A.M. on any given morning."
"If you’ve never had to wrestle a two-year-old slathered in maple syrup into a diaper while your four-year-old decides to give herself a haircut in time for preschool, let me spell it out for you: I was ready to kill someone."
"Don’t get me wrong. I’d liked South Riding, before the divorce."
"In the glossy pages of a real estate magazine, no one can see through the windows to the exhausted stabby mommy, or the naked sticky toddler, or the hair and blood and coffee on the floor."
"You work from home, Finn. You don’t need a full-time sitter for Zach."
"Writing trashy books is not a real job."
"I think the kids should come live with me and Theresa. Permanently."
"There is no way I’m sending my kids to live with that woman."
"I’m not paying you unless you get rid of him like you said… neat!"
"I never said I would do anything. You overheard a conversation you didn’t understand."
"He’s doing strange things. Terrible things."
"You don’t look like the top-shelf type."
"The world could use a few good public defenders."
"Every inch of his place was a reminder of why he was here and who he was attached to."
"I'm late. I can't discuss this with you right now. Can I bring Zach to you or not?"
"It’ll be faster if you go out the back way."
"She worked for Feliks? That’s exactly how we know each other."
"You don’t seem like the real-estate type either."
"Cold beer and takeout pizza. Barefoot, jeans, and a loose-fitting faded T."
"I should shred it and wash it down the sink."
"Don’t thank me. Theresa took care of it."
"What am I supposed to do with the paper?"
"She was on the phone arguing with someone."
"You weren’t waiting for anyone, were you?"
"You weren’t intending to ghost on me, were you?"
"How long will a grown man stay unconscious after taking a roofie?"
"Depends on the size of the man and the strength of the drug. Maybe a couple hours. Maybe a whole night."
"If your heroine has evidence, she ought to dump him at the police station and turn that evidence over to a detective. Let the authorities handle it."
"Negligent homicide’s a lesser charge. No big deal, right?"
"I’m going to turn Harris Mickler—and my statement—over to my sister."
"I’d killed a man. Whether or not I had done it intentionally hardly seemed to matter anymore."
"This was definitely not okay. We were not okay. But together sounded a whole lot better than doing this alone."
"It’s the time value of money. If we’re going to be professionals, we need to start acting like professionals."
"I’m just saying, there’s no shortage of assholes out there."
"I’m going to pretend you didn’t say that."
"She’s having some issues with her husband. I told her I might know someone who could help."
"You’ve taken something that belongs to me. You have 24 hours before my patience runs out."
"The only way I’d ever have a leg to stand on if Harris’s disappearance came back to bite me was to know for certain what had really happened in my garage."
"The money from Patricia was no different from my book advance, just one more unearned payment for a job I hadn’t done."
"Are you sure you don’t want to stick around for a while?"
"You’re more likely to get caught committing crimes in your own home than in plain sight."
"As far as I can figure, your chances of landing an agent were about ten thousand to one."
"It’s a fabulous setup—the timid wife hiring someone to kill her horrible husband, the plucky heroine and the hot young lawyer… They have great chemistry on the page, by the way. I’m dying to see who the killer is."
"I’m sure there will be plenty of people who…"
"I’m telling you, Finn. I know exactly how you feel. The same thought crossed my mind."
"I’ll do some digging and see what I can find."
"I’ve been on a few ride-alongs. I’m not a total amateur."
"I didn’t have any choice! I had to keep him from spotting Theresa and Aimee together, so I pretended I had something in my eye, and he leaned in to help me, and then one thing led to another—"
"I keep trying to do the right thing, and somehow it keeps backfiring."
"I can’t. This thing I’m tangled up in… It’s complicated."
"If it looks like shit and smells like shit, it’s probably shit."
"We’ll learn a lot more following Theresa. I find it a little too convenient that she’s a person of interest in a murder investigation while she’s acting as Feliks’s agent."
"So the question is, what does Feliks want the land for?"
"I don’t want to be saddled with a cop for the rest of her life."
"Ever heard of Hanlon’s razor? There’s an old saying that goes something like … ‘Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives.’ I make it a point never to assume the worst about people."
"Promise me if you need help, you’ll call."
"What if she’d killed Harris for far less noble reasons than revenge? What if she’d killed him for money?"
"As long as there’s no body, there’s no case."
"What does this mean? He’s not going through Theresa because she’s an agent. He’s going through her because she’s about to become an owner."
"If I discover you’ve been lying to me, I will find you. Do you understand?"
"Nothing says ‘serial killer’ like a chest freezer in a garage."
"I’d had all I could take of Harris Mickler. There was no freaking way I was going in that grave without a fight."
"A silencer. He was using a silencer. No one would hear the shots. No one would come to save us."
"If we take him, the police will only keep looking for him."
"I’m not in the business of plea bargains."
"Good. I guess I can finally stop worrying about you."
"I don’t believe we’ve been properly introduced. My name’s Finlay Donovan."