Kelly Oliver > Quotes

“Little thieves get shot, but great ones escape.”
Kelly Oliver, WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery”
― Kelly Oliver, Wolf

“Standing in front of my wardrobe, staring at the boxes on the top shelf, I smiled to myself. I was faced with my usual dilemma, picking out the right hat.”
― Kelly Oliver, Betrayal at Ravenswick

“He knew Kandinsky by heart: every trickle of red, slash of black ink, and hemorrhage of gold. Each dissonant note in its allegro, the harmony in its adagio, and its deep blue intermezzo, formed a symphony he had memorized in his body. He couldn’t say if Fragment 2 symbolized the Deluge, the Last Judgment, or the Resurrection. But it had become his religion, offering both redemption and pain..”
― Kelly Oliver

“indignantly. He fingered the edge of my”
― Kelly Oliver, Betrayal at Ravenswick

“He thought of what his mother always said whenever he cut himself, “Dimka, scars are time’s alphabet.” If so, his body was covered in poetry, his soul contained an entire encyclopedia of pain and loss..." Kelly Oliver, WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery”
― Kelly Oliver, Wolf

“It was always the ones with A-minuses who came around to argue about their grades.”
― Kelly Oliver, Wolf

“every man’s admirable qualities (kindness, charm, intelligence, cute butt--you name it) had an evil twin waiting in the shadows to bite her in the ass when she’d least expected it. It hadn’t taken a Ph.D. in philosophy to teach Jessica James that virtue was just the flip side of vice. A”
― Kelly Oliver, Wolf

“St. Bart’s hospital smelled of bleach and desperation.”
― Kelly Oliver, The Case of the Christie Conspiracy

“Men started this war and all wars. If women were in charge, war wouldn’t exist, and the world would be orderly and tidy.”
― Kelly Oliver, Betrayal at Ravenswick

“In spite of its nine-foot ceilings, the mahogany wainscoting and warped floorboards made the antiquated house feel claustrophobic, a sailing ship lost at sea, forever rolling this way and that.”
― Kelly Oliver, Wolf

“Of course, she remembered the Zimmerman telegram. In 1917, Dilly Knox and friends had deciphered a telegram from German Foreign minister, Arthur Zimmerman, to the German minister of Mexico offering the United States territory to the Mexican government if they joined the Germans in the war. It was the Zimmerman telegram that convinced the Americans to join the British.”
― Kelly Oliver, The Case of the Christie Conspiracy

“Yes, Father. I read detective stories and play chess to escape your tyranny.”
― Kelly Oliver, The Case of the Christie Conspiracy