Kate Flora > Quotes

“Even in societies vastly different from America's, common facial expressions like happiness, fear, surprise, and shock are the same.”
― Kate Flora, And Grant You Peace

“In his pocket, his silenced phone vibrated like a forgotten pleasure device.”
― Kate Flora, Led Astray

“without their clothes. He wondered if the guys”
― Kate Flora, Playing God

“Goodall fingered his chin, looking puzzled, as though he'd recently had a beard and someone had taken it while he wasn't looking.”
― Kate Flora, Redemption

“Burgess changed his shirt. Maura had left most of her lipstick and eyebrows on him as well ass her tears.”
― Kate Flora, Redemption

“That friend”
― Kate Flora, Playing God

“If Kara Allison did it, she did it. You start editing, you start picking and choosing because you don't like what the facts tell you, and you stop being a detective, become something else. If you want to become a private dick, find facts for money, then go there. But resign first. Because that's not what we do. We find, or we try to find, facts for truth. We don't always succeed or like what we find. And we don't always win. But it's an honorable calling. What you're thinking about doing is not." It was the longest speech he'd ever heard Kyle make. He got up. "Thanks, Terry." "I hope that helped." "Actually, it hurt. But it's what my mother would have called 'good pain.' That woman, rest her soul, believed in”
― Kate Flora, Playing God

“Doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs, tinkers, tailors, soldiers, spies - everyone was busier and more important than a mere homicide investigator. People did so hate to be bothered by sordid stuff like crime.”
― Kate Flora, Redemption

“one big, happy family. That Dr. Pleasant was a brilliant, hard-working practitioner and jovial, well-liked colleague who had a lovely wife and family in Cape Elizabeth. That being said, he wanted me to go home without learning a damned thing about the victim. How, exactly, was that supposed to help our investigation?" "You stepped on his toes, Joe." "I didn't put my weight down. And only after he'd rebuffed a couple of polite questions. I didn't go there to make nice. I went to learn about a murder victim." "You know what I'm saying. You can't go in there and strong arm these people. You have to be tactful." Cote paused for effect, but what effect Burgess didn't know. Waiting for the words to sink in? Did Cote think he was some impermeable soil, thick with clay and slow to percolate? Finally, Cote sighed and said, "Report to me daily. I want to know everything that's happening. I'll handle the press.”
― Kate Flora, Playing God

“She liked it that he didn’t play games. She was sick and a half of being condescended to.”
― Kate Flora, Careful What You Wish For: Stories of Revenge, Retribution, and The World Made Right

“Wal-Mart is modern America in a nutshell. A busy, air-conditioned bazaar offering products from all over the world at irresistible prices. No one sits on a carpet and haggles with you only because the Grand Vizier has already read your mind and priced the things you want at the prices you want to pay. No human interaction is necessary. Just pile up your sterile metal shopping cart with all the things you need to keep you happy, pay with plastic, and carry them back to your mobile home in your pickup truck, where you can add them to the hordes of other products you bagged on earlier expeditions. We live in a culture where shopping has become a recreational activity and the passive, glassy-eyed stare of the shopper suggests we are all being controlled by some higher authority which has replaced our minds, our souls, our will with a single emotion: the desire to shop.”
― Kate Flora, Liberty or Death

“Behind him, like poops behind a swimming goldfish, came a gaggle of reporters.”
― Kate Flora, Led Astray

“I have only the simplest shades in my house. I think a window treatment is something you should give a window when it’s sick.”
― Kate Flora, Be My Little Sugar: Another Girls' Night Out Novella

“It was dangerous to think you'd seen it all. It tempted fate to throw something worse in your face.”
― Kate Flora, A Child Shall Lead Them

“Getting a six-foot dead man into his SUV wasn't easy for a small woman in stilettos and a pencil skirt. He flopped like a dead fish and seemed to have more limbs than an octopus.”
― Kate Flora, Girls Night Out

“Her sigh was like her soul flowing out.”
― Kate Flora, Careful What You Wish For: Stories of Revenge, Retribution, and The World Made Right

“I’d fallen asleep so soundly it felt like I’d dropped into a black hole. Now I had to crawl back out, feeling my way like some underground creature startled by the light.”
― Kate Flora, Careful What You Wish For: Stories of Revenge, Retribution, and The World Made Right