J.A. Jance > Quotes

“A writer is someone who has written something today”
― J. A. Jance

“Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.”
― J A Jance

“I've long maintained that women are born knowing things it takes men a whole lifetime to figure out. This was simply one more case in point.”
― J.A. Jance, Justice Denied

“Sunday Meat Loaf 2.5 pounds ground chuck 1 cup oats 4.5-ounce can chopped green chilies ½ cup milk ½ cup minced onion 2 eggs*  2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons chili powder About 2 hours before serving, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake 1½ hours.”
― J.A. Jance, Field of Bones

“Taken out of context and given a forty-degree twist, you can use the Bible to justify almost anything.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“That’s what friends are for,” I said. “It doesn’t matter if they’re old friends or new friends. They’re the kind of people who will listen as long as you need them to because, sometimes, telling the story and having someone listen is the only way to figure out how to move on.”
― J.A. Jance, Second Watch

“Joanna heard the unspoken subtext in that simple statement. Jeff Daniels could call his parents and tell them the news. Marianne couldn’t. Marianne’s parents had never recovered from their daughter’s public defection from the Catholic Church and becoming a Methodist minister. Over the years, Marianne had given Joanna helpful hints about resolving the mother/ daughter rifts between Joanna and Eleanor Lathrop. That didn’t mean, however, that she had ever been able to heal the long-standing feud with her own mother.”
― J.A. Jance, Rattlesnake Crossing

“2.5 pounds ground chuck 1 cup oats 4.5-ounce can chopped green chilies ½ cup milk ½ cup minced onion 2 eggs*  2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons chili powder About 2 hours before serving, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake 1½ hours.”
― J.A. Jance, Field of Bones

“I’m not so sure innocence exists anymore.”
― J.A. Jance, Trial By Fury

“In the world of murder and mayhem, liars are losers. And they’re usually guilty.”
― J.A. Jance, Trial By Fury

“I believe your father referred to it as a judgment call. The call he made at the time was to go straight to Wayne Stevens’s office and raise hell about it instead of letting it be. I’m not so sure that was a good idea then, and I’m not sure it’s a good idea now,” Butch added thoughtfully. “There’s a reason people say you should let sleeping dogs lie.”
― J.A. Jance, Judgment Call

“water.”
― J.A. Jance, Trial By Fury

“There’s nothing like a compliment to turn any right-thinking American male into your basic monosyllabic kind of guy.”
― J.A. Jance, Birds Of Prey

“Suicide is something that hangs around forever, dropping load after load of guilt on the living.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“They stayed up talking until the ten o’clock news came on. Not surprisingly, the murder of Bisbee’s high school principal was again the lead story on the broadcast. The segment included Joanna’s press conference plea for help in locating family members.”
― J.A. Jance, Judgment Call

“There’s very little distance between love and hate, and often death obliterates the distance between the two entirely. They fuse into a paralyzing turmoil of opposing emotions, one that’s almost impossible to bear.”
― J.A. Jance, Lying In Wait

“From out of her past, she could almost hear D. H. Lathrop’s New Mexican drawl telling Joanna and her mother, “Newspaper reporters are just like rattlesnakes. You’re better off keeping them out in the open where you can see what they’re doing.” Live and learn, Joanna told herself, and don’t make the same mistake twice.”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“With the baby due in the next few days,” she said, toying with her paper plate loaded with peppery carne asada, “I simply can’t imagine why Butch would run off to El Paso like this. It makes no sense. It’s inexcusable.” “His publisher wanted him to go,” Joanna said patiently. “And so did I. It’s an honor to be invited to appear on a conference panel before your book is even released.” “Honor or not, it’s irresponsible for him to leave you alone like this, especially in your condition. Besides, I don’t see why it’s such a big deal,” Margaret replied. “His book is only a mystery, isn’t it? After all, it’s not as though it’s a real book.”
― J.A. Jance, Dead Wrong

“Distance is to love as wind is to fire. Blows out the little ones and fans the big ones.”
― J.A. Jance

“When are you going to give up and accept the inevitable? Automation and microchips are here to stay.”
― J.A. Jance, Trial By Fury

“Like an old snakebit hound wanting his own cave under a house, I wanted to go home to lick my wounds.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“You expect me to get on a helicopter? I don’t do helicopters. I weigh too much, and I know too much about gravity.”
― J.A. Jance

“It’s tough going to bed with a stranger. There’s nothing much to talk about the next morning when you wake up.”
― J.A. Jance, Taking The Fifth

“Closure isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be,”
― J.A. Jance, Second Watch

“I've had too much money to be able to tell who my friends are...”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“cattle guard.”
― J.A. Jance, Missing and Endangered

“Everybody leads you to think that hospice is this really great thing, that once you accept it, life just smooths out and everything is peachy keen. What a load of crap!”
― J.A. Jance, Queen Of The Night

“She had transferred in from Baltimore because as a black single mom she wanted to raise her two young sons far from what some people liked to call the murder capital of the world.”
― J.A. Jance, Unfinished Business

“Driving time has always been my best thinking time.”
― J.A. Jance, Proof of Life

“The first rule for getting out of holes is to stop”
― J.A. Jance, Second Watch