Rachel Howzell Hall > Quotes

“Some days are diamond. Some days are stone.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The View from Here

“May you be in heaven a full half hour before the Devil knows you're dead”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“starve my distractions and feed my focus”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“Don’t let his rejection make you become someone you weren’t supposed to become.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“I open my eyes and choose violence.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“Scorch his world by simply believing you are worthy of being loved by a person who will love you always.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“shop owner named Nadia Denham . . . An elegant name that evokes lovers and dances, spiced teas in fragile cups, and secrets, lots of secrets. Old ladies keep the best secrets. And the most horrible ones.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“My heart is pulverized, and I wanna cry.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“damp and messy ponytail.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“Perfect in every way but delightfully…” “Delightfully…?” “Shameless. Pleasantly unrepentant. Deliciously transgressive.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“Being human?” She smirks. “Be wary of a man who you don’t want bringing you a cool towel when you’re about to pass out from explosive diarrhea.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“Funny”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“Shall we get on with detective-ing now?” “Yep. Detective away.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, City of Saviors

“Asthma kills more than three thousand people a day—Jocelyn should be included in next year’s census.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Scorpions

“You make me weak," he whispers.
"You make me burn," I whisper back.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“We warned you, Colette. You fucked around—and you found out.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“had that combative tilt to his chin, that swagger anyone could master if he watched Season One of The Wire.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“looked at me as though I were moments away from licking all the doorknobs at the Red Roof Inn.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, We Lie Here

“Ha. This bitch really thinks I trust her.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“I’ll do anything to make you whole, to keep you safe.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“Zucca sprayed luminol in the Jet Inn’s parking lot, the entire building would glow like a float in Disneyland’s Electrical Parade.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“Unless the agent had meant twenty football minutes. Converted into real time, that would be … a six-hour drive.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“The sycamore trees that surround our house sway as the wind pushes in an oncoming storm now gathering off the coast.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“And even though this was now my investigation, he told Colin (because Colin had a penis) about entering the condo.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“What something is worth isn’t always tied to money.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“Wake doesn’t care about them dying. More dead means fewer people to rebel against him.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“A sick man. A country chick. A shaggy nurse. A cokehead cook. An uppity banker. And a mass shooter. My competition”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, They All Fall Down

“I work very hard to make something out of nothing.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“Everyone lies, everyone leaves something out of the narrative.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, And Now She's Gone

“The sunset made you think life was one big Hallmark store. If you ignored the bereavement, divorce, and “get well” sections, then, yeah, it was.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows