Jane A. Adams > Quotes

“You raised your kids to be independent, strong, and think for themselves. So once they're grown, why is it so hard to let them do it?”
― Jane Adams, I'm Still Your Mother: How To Get Along With Your Grown-Up Children For The Rest Of Your Life

“What are the qualities of human greatness that create history? Every time, if we think far enough, it is an ability to look through the confusion of the moment and see the moral issue involved; it is a refusal to allow a fundamental sense of justice to be distorted; it is the ability to listen to the voice of conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded people, so that they gather together around each other, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, and make a new period in history.”
― Jane Adams

“About 1 a.m. on Thursday morning this child, Joshua Aaron Banks, was taken from his bed by person or persons unknown.”
― Jane A. Adams, Kidnap

“that she wasn’t even sure how these things worked. Did the murder happen just once, and the investigation then take the whole weekend? Or would there be a chance to work through different scenarios in the playbook, as Fliss Cameron had called it? She almost wished now that she’d taken up the offer of an advance read. Almost. Returning to the foyer, she saw that her other guests had arrived.”
― Jane A. Adams, Murder at the Hotel

“I know that you believe in something called Conservation of Matter. That you believe every atom in existence has been present in the universe since the beginning of, well, of everything. That each time something new is made — a new person, a new plant or animal — the atomic structure will contain atoms reused, recycled if you like, and that past life memories and so on may be a result of this. I know that you believe in the messages of your dreams and that you share the dream experiences. That you believe the Earth might have been seeded from elsewhere, either deliberately or by accident, but I don’t know why you think that.’ ‘Panspermia,’ Amy said. It was the first time she had spoken since Ray had sat down. ‘It’s becoming almost respectable now. People like Sir Geoffrey Hoyle are talking about it as a possibility. Did you know, for instance, that about 70 per cent of the Earth’s water had an extraterrestrial origin and there’s evidence of bacteria at least arriving with it?’ Ray shook his head. ‘I didn’t know that,’ he said. ‘But how does it fit with Lee?’ ‘Lee was a would-be alchemist,’ Amy said. ‘He believed in transmutation. We all do, it’s part of our religion: that the soul, the essence of life, can be transmuted and purified through meditation and living a good life. Through experience. Lee thought you could push the process faster. Like base metals into gold. Humankind into something else.’ ‘And this transmutation,’ Ray asked. ‘I mean, as part of your belief system, what are you hoping to achieve by it?”
― Jane A. Adams, The Unwilling Son

“tell”
― Jane A. Adams, The Rina Martin Murder Mysteries Books 1–7

“Machiavelli,”
― Jane A. Adams, Murder on Sea

“The man’s sandy hair was stained a brassy yellow by the sodium light. He had been standing on the towpath for the better part of the last hour and his coat collar was turned up against the increasing chill”
― Jane A. Adams, The Apothecary's Daughter

“Look at all the children abused within their family who will go through hell rather than give their abuser away.”
― Jane A. Adams, Murder on the Cliff

“arrived that the Christmas lights had already been switched on. In daylight they were off, of course, but they still looked festive. She would usually spend Christmas with Harry and Jean and of course more lately, just with Harry. Her father gave her presents on Christmas Eve and then, duty done, kissed her goodbye until the festivities were over. It was a relief on both parts. Her dad had no idea how to do Christmas. Lauren knew he’d spend most of it drunk with various women in various nightclubs or in various casinos. It always amazed her that however much he drank, he still had this incredibly acute awareness of what was going on around him. It was something that was quite scary about him. That even when he lost control, he seemed to be kind of in control about losing it. She crossed the road alongside groups of families, chattering teens and excited kids who were going to see Father Christmas. A bit early for that, Lauren thought. When her mum had been alive and Lauren had been a little thing, they’d gone to see Santa Claus in one of the big department stores”
― Jane A. Adams, Safe

“wardrobe and felt blindly into the pocket of her oldest jacket. She withdrew a folded piece of paper wrapped in a plastic”
― Jane A. Adams, The Greenway

“tenacity.”
― Jane A. Adams, Murder on Sea

“little tirades against the less than perfect,”
― Jane A. Adams, The Greenway

“She had said she wanted to know the truth about Frank, but truth, he knew, was a funny thing. Sometimes people liked the idea far more than the reality.”
― Jane A. Adams, The Apothecary's Daughter