Dana Stabenow > Quotes

“When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.”
― Dana Stabenow

“Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?"
"I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends."
"You mean like Alaska?”
― Dana Stabenow, Play With Fire

“We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin”
― Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood

“To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.”
― Dana Stabenow

“She raised her head again. "Aren't you supposed to come over all manly man and forbid the little lady from taking such risks with her fragile self?"
"I like my balls right where they are," he said, and she laughed and put her head back down on his chest.

Kate Shugak to Jim Chopin
Though Not Dead”
― Dana Stabenow

“That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak.”
― Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder

“The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.”
― Dana Stabenow

“Suicide by Alaska.”
― Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep

“At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.”
― Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water

“If cyberspace can screw with you, it will.”
― Dana Stabenow

“Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.”
― Dana Stabenow

“Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.”
― Dana Stabenow, Restless in the Grave

“Three-hour layover in Seattle. If you were flying Alaska Airlines and you wanted to go to hell you had to fly through Seattle to get there.”
― Dana Stabenow, Though Not Dead

“Once in a while, I like to polish my halo by taking on a case pro bono.”
― Dana Stabenow, Restless in the Grave

“Everything change with mine, Katya.”
― Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood

“How come you're always so mean? --Howie Katelnikof”
― Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood

“Who cares, anymore? Nobody believes anything politicians say. It’s not like they’re working for us, all they do after they get into office is run for reelection. Money, money, money, that’s all it’s about.”
― Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again

“Libraries are what keep us a step ahead of the apes.”
― Dana Stabenow

“Easy equation. No jobs, no people. No people, no kids. No kids, no schools. No schools, no community. No community, no jobs, and the snake eats its tail and consumes itself.”
― Dana Stabenow, Bad Blood

“The postmistress was a large, zaftig woman with long, grayish blond hair and a floating, floral style of dress.”
― Dana Stabenow, Bad Blood

“People who read are never strangers.”
― Dana Stabenow, No Fixed Line

“When you betrayed someone, you didn’t just betray them, you betrayed your families, your community, an entire way of life.”
― Dana Stabenow, Fire And Ice

“The beating of the drums, which had seemed so monotonous, now took on the sound of a heartbeat, a deep, steady, reassuring throb that seemed to beat up through the soles of his shoes. The chanting went up above the beat, below it, swirled around it, now joyous, now mournful, sometimes a little teasing, maybe even a little mischievous. He couldn’t tell where”
― Dana Stabenow, Blood Will Tell

“There was elation, there was triumph, there was pride in achieving the summit, yes, but most of all there was a shift in perspective. From below, the view was of the mountains and the heavens, equally unattainable. From here, it was the mountains below and the heavens above and herself in between, herself, an insignificant, puny little mortal between immortals.”
― Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw

“The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.”
― Dana Stabenow

“sartorial splendor with a long, speculative survey”
― Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder

“Begun in fire, ending in ice. The poet was wrong; ice was a better destroyer than fire, particularly if you were in the mood for vengeance. Fire was quick and clean, a leap of flame, a wave of heat and then nothing but a pile of soft and formless ash, dispersed with the first breeze. Ice was slow, heavy, corrosive, relentless, grating. It took a long time to get where it was going, and when it got there, it left behind a towering confusion of rubble to be sorted and identified and disposed of. Ice left baggage.”
― Dana Stabenow, Fire And Ice

“cocoa”
― Dana Stabenow, Breakup

“A new crevasse opened in front of her, falling straight down in a path a hundred feet across. Perched on its edge, she stared down into that blatant, leering boast of earthly power that seemed to say, See? If I'd really wanted you, I would have had you. Maybe next time you won't be so lucky. The subterranean snicker was almost audible.”
― Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw

“biologists figure is why the crab stocks took such a dive in the mid-eighties.” Jack examined his greasy fingers with rapt attention before beginning”
― Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water