Rebecca Forster > Quotes

“Crime was like litter tossed on the highway: once it was shoved out the window the only ones who cared were the ones close to where it landed.”
― Rebecca Forster, Before Her Eyes

“I had to figure out if I was happier being with a live woman or living with the memories of a dead one.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“He hadn't actually lied to her about anything; she had erred in her assumptions about his life. What Archer knew about Josie was what she chose for him to know; what she knew about him was what he decided to tell her. They had reveled in their independence and now she knew that was a mistake. Understanding that made her feel lost. It was natural for a lover to believe she knew everything - intuitively, instinctively and intimately - about the man she had committed to. Wasn't it?”
― Rebecca Forster, Silent Witness

“She had learned that evil had the fattest wallet and most chaste face of all.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“the”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“Never count on anybody for too much.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“Children were hard to deal with; children who were on the verge of adulthood must be the hardest of all. Maybe she'd been too difficult for Emily, and that was a sad thought. "I”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“They're back now." Archer followed”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“He stared at Hannah as if he owned her. Voices were raised somewhere else. The man didn't seem to notice. He just looked at Hannah until she yelled 'go away' and threw the small, hard pillow at him. He didn't even laugh at that”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“Period.”
― Rebecca Forster, Silent Witness

“He had been gorgeous to look at and deadly to live with.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“All this stuff was like air: essential and expected, missed only when taken away.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“thirty-year legal career. His robes were tossed on the couch behind them. His desk served as a workstation”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“continuance. I want you to talk with some doctors. I want”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“Wilson”
― Rebecca Forster, Silent Witness

“she was an army of one and was stronger than the invading force.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“Today California buried Supreme Court Justice, Fritz Rayburn. Governor Joe Davidson delivered the eulogy calling the judge a friend, a confidant, and his brother in service to the great state of California.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“Every time I try to play by rules I get smashed into the ground.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“It was a week ago today that Judge Rayburn died in a fire that swept through his Pacific Palisades home in the early morning hours.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“Josie walked slowly toward the jury. She stood close as if she was”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“Now Josie knew she kept them to remind her that broken things can be mended, but there is always a scar.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“Birthday”
― Rebecca Forster, The Witness Series : 8 Josie Bates Thrillers

“work”
― Rebecca Forster, Silent Witness

“Judge Norris gave his permission for her to talk to Archer. Archer looked Josie in the eye.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“from Josie. Josie, smaller and more vulnerable than Emily, was buffeted by the waves. It took all her might to stand her ground. One hit her. Another came. A third slapped her down, dragging her into a whirlpool of sand and water. Josie was twisted head over heels, her small arms flailing, until she didn't know which way was up, or where down was. She hit the sand hard. Salt stung her shoulder where it was scraped bloody by shell and rock. Over and over again Josie was tumbled and dragged on the rocky bottom only to be sucked back up into the churning, crystalline bubble of water. She was suffocating. Death was around the corner. There was no savior in sight. She wanted her mother. Where was her mother, Josie wondered, as Hannah fought for her life?”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“of the ocean and the sound of the water lapping”
― Rebecca Forster, Lost Witness

“perpetual pain, or ecstasy, depending on one’s point of view. Josie”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“people wasn’t simple, sometimes saviors weren’t who you expected them to be, all people don’t get saved, and not everyone deserved to be saved.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“A little gift from her mother who made Linda what she was –a damn survivor.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“broken things can be mended, but there is always a scar.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness