A.C.F. Bookens > Quotes

“I’d driven past this old gas station all my life and had mourned as the vegetation took it over and began to pull it down over the past few years. I knew, though, that no one in our rural mountain county was going to buy the place, not after someone had been murdered there twenty years ago. A single gas pump on a country road wasn’t enough incentive to take on that bad mojo.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“As I set a sixth case of Cheerwine by the door, I made my plan for”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“she sometimes gave me straight talk that made me bristle at first when she thought I needed it, she was one of those people who listened well and continued to think about your conversation long after it was done. She was my go-to person when life got hard, and today, well, today felt hard.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“Most of the color had fallen from the trees already, but I loved this time of year when the golden trees – the beeches mostly – held their leaves the longest. On a day like today, when the sun was bright, the mountains looked decorated with lights.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“though, because the station had been there for almost a hundred years – first as a country store and then as a welcome fueling spot twenty-five miles from the nearest city. I was determined to not let it all disappear when the bulldozers parked outside knocked it down. My fifty dollars had gained me entry and rights”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“When she died, I brought the piece home to remember her and how she taught me to look at life, as a path that is fraught but never solitary.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“but I could see the glint of light off glass in the back. Jackpot!”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“It’s not a failure to ask for help. It’s a failure to not ask and still need the help.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Bobbins And Bodies

“for Diana Gabaldon. She was obsessed with Outlander,”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Hardcover Homicide

“who wanted books that taught him to be compassionate.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Publishable By Death

“After I rang up a man who was purchasing Ken Follett’s entire The Pillars of the Earth series,”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Hardcover Homicide

“You’ve been reading self-help books again.” I shrugged. “It’s a side effect of the job. I realize something about myself, and then I have an infinite number of resources to learn more.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Hardcover Homicide

“misogynistic”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Hardcover Homicide

“I’d finally let myself accept that when I wasn’t too proud to take help and let myself dream big, other people took joy in helping.”
― ACF Bookens, Stitches In Crime Box Set Volume II: Books 4 - 6

“got first shirt, I take it?”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Hardcover Homicide

“Mollie Cox Bryan, Maggie Sefton, and Millie Jordan. “Lots of murder”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Publishable By Death

“These were my people,”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Publishable By Death

“The Quiltmaker’s Gift, one of my favorites, I was delighted. The illustrations alone made that book worth owning. But the story was sweet and generous, too. I thought her son would love it.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Publishable By Death

“The first time I’d done this fork-dipping technique when we’d had dinner out, Jared had laughed at me because he said the point of the salad was the dressing.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Hardcover Homicide

“led me to the car. “I don’t have clothes or pajamas for us, so we need to swing by the house,” I said. “Nope.” He opened the trunk of his car, and there was my suitcase, all packed. “Mika helped me out.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Stitches In Crime Box Set Volume I: Book 1 - 3

“I remembered my college days when I was an English and History double major just like Rocky. One semester, I’d had to buy sixty-seven books. Sixty-seven. I loved books, but that was ridiculous.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, St. Marin's Cozy Mystery Series Box Set #1-3

“There but for the grace of God . . .”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Bound To Execute

“never get tired of that view, and it never fails to remind me that no matter how terrible life is, beauty still rises up.” I turned to stare at this woman with her puffy eyes and enrapt expression and decided I was going to be more like her. “You have to hunt that beauty down, right?” I said more to myself than to anyone else. “That’s right. Beauty Hunters, that’s what we are,” Mary said as she wrapped her arm around her friend’s shoulder. “Seek it and find it.” “Is that a verse about God?” Mika asked. “Sure is. Don’t see anything but God down there in that view,” Olivia said quietly.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Bobbins And Bodies

“Justice is important, but so is grace,”
― ACF Bookens, Stitches In Crime Box Set Volume II: Books 4 - 6

“I had been on God’s green earth long enough to know that when people drop juicy tidbits like that, it’s because they want you to gobble them down and ask for more.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Stitches In Crime Box Set Volume I: Book 1 - 3

“serious. “Oh, that’s easy. The bully.” “I thought you found him charming and sincere,” Jared said. “I did, which is why he’s all the more dangerous. Bullies aren’t just lugs who push and badger, you know? They can be real charmers who pull people close only to mow them down.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Hardcover Homicide

“When our town budget affords us a mass spectrometer or even a microscope for that matter, I’ll let you know.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Hardcover Homicide

“Did you know that gullible isn’t in the dictionary”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Publishable By Death