Marcia Clark > Quotes

“This steak wouldn't have tasted nearly as good if I'd been lying dead at the bottom of a ravine. I lifted my martini and drank to that.”
― Marcia Clark, Guilt by Association

“I fell asleep praying that Donald Trump would announce he was planning to become a woman.”
― Marcia Clark, Blood Defense

“I’d seen all the ingredients; I’d just refused to see what they made. So”
― Marcia Clark, Moral Defense

“Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day.”
― Marcia Clark, Guilt by Degrees

“What? What's your issue now?' I asked, annoyed.
'Jus' wonderin' what's it like for Droopy. This place is intense and he's jus' a lil' guy, you know?'
Of all the bangers in the world, I had to get Mr. Sensitive. Droopy, I assumed, was Hector Amaya's gang moniker. I wondered why they were always so unflattering. Me, I would've at least picked something like Foxy or Jet. Which, I supposed, explained in part why I wasn't gang material.”
― Marcia Clark, Guilt by Association

“Misery spreads out from a murder in ripples, blighting everything it touches.”
― Marcia Clark, Without a Doubt

“By virtue of his celebrity, he would be coddled by worshipful cops, pumped up by star-fucking attorneys, indulged by a spineless judge, and adored by jurors every bit as addled by racial hatred as their counterparts on the Rodney King jury. O. J. Simpson slaughtered two innocent people, and he walked free—right past the most massive and compelling body of physical evidence ever assembled against a criminal defendant. I am not bitter. I am angry.”
― Marcia Clark, Without a Doubt

“What can I do for you, Detective?' he said cheerily, smiling and nodding at Bailey.
What was I, chopped liver? I had a badge too. Maybe I should've shown it to him. Maybe I should've shown him my gun too.”
― Marcia Clark, Guilt by Association

“Just as all politics is local, all good history is personal.”
― Marcia Clark, Without a Doubt

“I had to admit, my little Accord hadn't looked all that great next to the Benzes and Rolls in that garage to begin with, but now that it'd been turned into a mobile tribute to the artistic rendering of Lil' Loco, it stuck out like a Cracker Jack ring in a a Tiffany display.”
― Marcia Clark, Guilt by Association

“Think Pickelman's our guy?'
'Maybe. Or maybe he knows who is. Or maybe he's guilty of something else.'
'Glad you could narrow it down,' Bailey replied.
'Always here for ya.”
― Marcia Clark, Guilt by Association

“Denial is sometimes the only comfort you can offer yourself. Because once you let yourself feel, the misery is endless.”
― Marcia Clark, Without a Doubt

“GET THE ASSHOLE WHO DID THIS! #justiceforchloe   OMG I LOVED HER!! #tragedy   MY FAVORITE ON DARK CORNERS! NOOOOO! #chloeforever”
― Marcia Clark, Blood Defense

“name.”
― Marcia Clark, Guilt by Association

“that disappearing knife.” After Alex and Michelle left, I pulled up all the photos that showed Tiegan’s bookcase and enlarged them so I could examine every inch. Something”
― Marcia Clark, Moral Defense

“Besides, it’s possible he’s not guilty.” I laughed so hard I had to put down my fries. I”
― Marcia Clark, Blood Defense

“Talking to my mother was about as much fun as chewing a ball of tinfoil with a mouthful of fillings.”
― Marcia Clark, Blood Defense

“I heard Chloe Monahan’s voice on the television and the shock of it made me jerk my head toward the screen again—but it was just a clip from her interview on Ellen. Bonnie put her hands on her hips and fixed me with a death ray. “Once more, Brinkman, and I’ll let you go out there looking like a raccoon in drag.”
― Marcia Clark, Blood Defense

“It’s the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head. Sheri—one”
― Marcia Clark, Blood Defense

“CAR TAPE. October 1994. I’d like to see us abolish the jury system. Why leave the fate of our nation in the hands of these moon rocks?”
― Marcia Clark, Without a Doubt

“Slide by with a lie; don’t admit it till you quit it. It”
― Marcia Clark, Blood Defense

“I raised an eyebrow. Since when did they need real news to justify the slugfest? Barry gave me a knowing smile behind the assistant’s back as he ducked into his studio.”
― Marcia Clark, Blood Defense

“Three—police jargon for a sirens-on emergency.”
― Marcia Clark, Guilt by Degrees

“Work offers a defensible escape from a private life on the skids. Working myself to the point of exhaustion left me feeling purified. Exhilarated. I think it also gave me a sense that I was cheating mortality.”
― Marcia Clark, Without a Doubt

“What I proposed was to give Dr. Blake the entire sample. Let him do all the testing—provided the defense would share his results with us. If the Dream Team was sincere about getting an honest result, they’d go for my compromise. The only possible reason for turning me down was if they knew the results would hang their client. My counter-motion, in essence, would call their bluff. Get it, judge? They don’t want the truth; they want to hide evidence. Sure enough, the defense flatly rejected my proposal. That figured. What surprised the hell out of me was the subsequent ruling from Ito. He granted the defense’s ridiculous request: 10 percent, he decreed, would be “available to the defense for their own testing.”
― Marcia Clark, Without a Doubt

“some trace and leaves some trace of himself—or herself—at any location visited. So”
― Marcia Clark, Killer Ambition (Rachel Knight #3

“When the demonstration was finally over, Simpson casually snapped the gloves off. And I thought to myself, If they were so hard to get on, why are they so easy to get off, Sparky? At that point, he looked directly at me, as though he expected me to take them from him. I didn’t move a muscle. I met his gaze without blinking. After a few seconds, he dropped the gloves on the table in front of me and moved on.”
― Marcia Clark, Without a Doubt

“The furniture was average, nondescript—somewhere between high-end and yard-sale”
― Marcia Clark, Blood Defense

“It was even possible that his blood was on the Rockingham glove. Preliminary tests indicated that this was the case. We had already found markers on that glove from Ron’s and Nicole’s blood. If we could establish that the glove bore a mixture of blood from both victims and from the defendant, that would be very powerful evidence. For that, however, we would need to send the samples away to Cellmark for more sophisticated testing.”
― Marcia Clark, Without a Doubt

“Domestic violence support groups and hotlines have multiplied since the Simpson case. There are now over fifty shelters in Los Angeles County alone. This is a very real step forward because without such resources victims often have nowhere to turn. I want to take this opportunity to applaud all the workers whose tireless efforts help the survivors of domestic violence. You save lives every day.”
― Marcia Clark, Without a Doubt