Faye Kellerman > Quotes

“Kids are like heroin -- an injection of pain when they're around, but even when they're not around it's like that next fix. You just can't stop thinking about it.”
― Faye Kellerman, Hangman

“What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.”
― Faye Kellerman, Hangman

“That is a fart without wind....." in reference to when you can't back up what you say. very funny.”
― Faye Kellerman, Straight into Darkness

“You’ve got a good side?”
“I do. I just don’t use it too often. My bad side’s so much more fun.”
― Faye Kellerman, The Mercedes Coffin

“True, my boy. Only Hashem is omniscient, and until He decides we’re worthy of His communication via prophets or the Messiah, we mortals are forced to live in a state of ignorance. I’ve spent my whole life learning, Detective, acquiring knowledge not only from the scriptures of my belief, but from countless other sources—American law, philosophy, psychology, economics, political science: I have studied them all at great length. Yet, a madman can slip under my nose, and I realize I know nothing. I am still a meaningless speck of dust in the scheme of things. A most humbling experience.”
― Faye Kellerman, The Ritual Bath

“Life was a blank page written in invisible ink, a tale all told, just waiting to be deciphered.”
― Faye Kellerman, The Quality of Mercy

“showcase magnificent eyes: big and round and pale whiskey in color, set under arched black eyebrows and topped with an awning of long, dark lashes.”
― Faye Kellerman, Street Dreams

“When it’s silent, your brain fills in the music,” Decker told him. “After all these years, I think I’ve finally learned how to listen.”
― Faye Kellerman, The Beast

“had enough time to think about it.”
― Faye Kellerman, Walking Shadows

“Judaism has a lot of rituals, a lot of nonnegotiable behaviors. But we also allow for a great deal of personal freedom. Personal freedom and its sister trait, personal responsibility, are what make the religion so hard. But they are also what make the religion so satisfying.”
― Faye Kellerman, Grievous Sin

“Decker looked at his sack lunch, sitting on the passenger’s seat of his unmarked. Guess he was going to eat in the car”
― Faye Kellerman, Jupiter's Bones

“A cake can be very life-affirming.”
― Faye Kellerman, Day of Atonement

“What a crock of bullshit, Decker thought. He felt guilty. Initially, she’d reacted with anger, which was healthy, and he’d quelled her fire. Now, she was internalizing the bad hand she’d been dealt. “Rina, none of this is your fault. And no one is after your kids. If they’re out of the way,”
― Faye Kellerman, The Ritual Bath

“about two miles east of where the infant had been discarded. It was a Medicaid hospital, meaning that most of the patients were poor. Despite its location, it had a world-renowned reputation. When my baby sister, Hannah, needed some minor surgery, Rina insisted that she be taken to Mid-City instead of one of the bigger, more moneyed behemoth hospitals on the affluent west side of town.”
― Faye Kellerman, Street Dreams

“She took the picture from him and set it back down on the table. “My grandmother.” She slipped her arms around her husband, biting his mustache”
― Faye Kellerman, Street Dreams

“a Jew who passes up a permissible pleasure is a fool.”
― Faye Kellerman, Sacred and Profane

“Simply this. If God was so sure that righteous Jewish men and women wouldn’t murder, why did He bother with the sixth commandment?”
― Faye Kellerman, The Ritual Bath

“What the fuck is this? Looks like a secret code to me. You some commie spy, rich bitch Hebe lady?”
― Faye Kellerman, The Ritual Bath

“Yitzchak was bad enough, but how could He abandon Moshe so cruelly? But her ire was quickly quelled by the immediate guilt that followed whenever she doubted her faith.”
― Faye Kellerman, The Ritual Bath

“Your ex-Criminal Sciences professor is a jerk. What is existentialism anyway?” “Everything is random…purposeless. Each person for himself.” “Sounds like the FBI—” “Daddy—” “Kinda like a dog-eat-dog philosophy?”
― Faye Kellerman, Serpent's Tooth

“animal. In the end it was his passion that did him in.”
― Faye Kellerman, The Quality of Mercy

“Shabbat dishwasher that has been an absolute”
― Faye Kellerman, The Burnt House

“the techs. Hanover said,”
― Faye Kellerman, Street Dreams

“the”
― Faye Kellerman, False Prophet

“slightly agape, the hair pulled off the face. The woman appeared to be around forty. Even without benefit of color, he had seen enough postmortem photos to know what he was studying. “Rina,”
― Faye Kellerman, Street Dreams

“Anti-Semitism was nothing new to him. He’d grown up a good ole boy in Gainesville, where there was little direct contact with Jews but still a lot of prejudice. The locals regarded decadent Miami as a pinko watering hole for kikes, spics, and niggers.”
― Faye Kellerman, The Ritual Bath

“That’s not the same as bookkeeping!” How can she be so fucking clam!”
― Faye Kellerman, Sacred and Profane

“You know the artists?” “I certainly know Thomas Cole and Asher Durand. They’re well-known Hudson River Valley painters.” “Yeah, it does look like the Valley,” Radar said. “What are the paintings worth?” “How big are they?” “Small. Eight by ten . . . a few a bit bigger.” “Okay, so probably not major works. They’re still worth in the thousands. More like four figures rather than five although Thomas Cole can be pricey. But that’s usually the big canvases.”
― Faye Kellerman, Murder 101

“I write well-fleshed out characters, and inevitably, more ideas spring from my subconscious. They all have a little bit of me in them. It’s very hard to figure out in advance how a story will unfold, but after having written so many novels, I feel more comfortable letting the ideas come up from somewhere in my own subconscious. Writing is much easier now because that sense of panic I used to experience doesn’t set in as I begin a new book.”
― Faye Kellerman

“ingest a lot of illicit chemicals. The murder smacks of drug-frenzied adolescence. The dismembered arm and leg, the slit throat. Spaced-out teenage boys who love gore and have low impulse control.”
― Faye Kellerman, The Ritual Bath