Alexandra Sokoloff > Quotes

“Suddenly she longed for the comfort of books around her. No matter how bad she felt, a library could always make her feel better.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, The Unseen

“bookstores and libraries were both alluring and calming for people with troubled minds.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, The Unseen

“The moon is waxing. December moon. Cold Moon.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Cold Moon

“He didn’t even attempt to guess at what that delusion might be. He knew at the heart of it there was nothing poetic or metaphorical about it. The core motivation for all serial killers was the same: they got sexual release from rape, torture, pain, and murder. There was no other “why.” Trying to wrap it up in some elaborate psychological package was less than useless. Aloud he continued, “Also it’s notable”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Blood Moon

“screen T.V. A comfortable and well-stocked family room, including a wet bar with a locked liquor cabinet and a closet with door standing open, shelves packed with tennis rackets and snowshoes and ice skates. All the accoutrements of a well-off, athletic family in a room now tainted with the overwhelming presence of death. The father was slumped in a club chair in front of the television with a rifle at his feet and a bloody cavern where his head had been. Blood and brains sprayed the carpet beneath him. At first glimpse just about anyone would see it as a suicide. “Basement is concrete block,” Epps said. “Family probably never heard the shot.” “The gun his?” Roarke asked, and heard the edge in his voice. “From the cabinet upstairs. Guy is a sportsman,” Aceves answered.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Blood Moon

“He slowed for one last round, riding the buzz of endorphins, feeling the knotted parts of his soul unraveling, knowing he was an idiot for not making time for this every single day.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Blood Moon

“Revelation. All-time favorite of unmedicated street evangelists everywhere.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Huntress Moon

“The shadow moves across the darkened streets, surveying its domain. The fog is like a living thing.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Cold Moon

“Fair as the moon and cold as ice. Cara. He held her until he slept.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Cold Moon

“Oh—so you’ve never noticed anything missing in the Ten Commandments?” He ran through the list in his head, but he already sensed where she was going with it. She nodded. “There’s no commandment against rape. Or against slavery, or torture, or child abuse, or spousal abuse. There are commandments against theft and swearing, but none against atrocity.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Bitter Moon

“He knew why she killed. Because anyone with a human feeling would want to kill the men she killed. Because the killing she did prevented the further agony of innocent victims. Because someone had to do it.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Cold Moon

“Things happen. Life happens. Sometimes we draw things to us. Maybe it’s fate. I can’t tell you, Matthew. But it seems that for whatever reason, this one’s yours.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Huntress Moon

“and Ashbury, looking up at a stopped clock atop one of the buildings, forever fixed at 4:20. She turns toward the next street . . . and sees a For Rent sign. The street address is 420. She shoulders her bag and walks toward it. The manager of 420 is a going-on-elderly Indian man with hazy eyes who has not the slightest interest in her; he is off on some distant plane of his own and will never be able to describe her even if he ever feels a desire to. He shows her”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Blood Moon

“The house lies on the outskirts of the desert community, lone and isolated. A strong wind blows over the surrounding land, swirling dust demons across the darkness of the fields. In the black of sky, a million stars tremble around the full moon. In the split rail fence encircling the large yard, the front gate stands open; as the wind moves it, the wood seems to be alive, shivering. He”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Blood Moon

“She concentrates on the road, on the bleak winter light over the pale grass on gently rolling hills.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Cold Moon

“Santa Muerte is the court of last resort. She does not fail. She does what must be done.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Cold Moon

“Fraternities represent an almost cult-like white-cis-hetero-patriarchy—a closed chute that exists to isolate the sons of the privileged among their wealthy peers and keep them moving straight into the highest echelons of society. Fraternities are where the one percent systematically consolidate their wealth and learn how to keep the rest of society enslaved.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Hunger Moon

“But that’s the trick about Gulf War Syndrome, isn’t it? It’s not supposed to exist, not enough to pay benefits anywa”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, The Space Between

“She thinks, for the millionth time, that being a woman is the world’s most perfect camouflage.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Huntress Moon

“He felt a flash of irritation at her certainty. It was inbred, a birthright…no one had ever denied her anything.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Book of Shadows

“Santa Muerte:   She is out there. But she’s not the only one. This is a call to arms. This is a war on rape culture.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Cold Moon

“She strides forward and takes him by those locks, exposing his throat. She knows the key veins and arteries by heart; the blade goes exactly where it needs to go.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Blood Moon

“then? Jade”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Cold Moon

“She is out there. But she’s not the only one. This is a call to arms. This is a war on rape culture.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Cold Moon

“looked over. What he was looking at now was more than a simple stabbing. The family had been butchered. Not merely killed, but slashed in a frenzy. There was blood everywhere: soaking the clothing and skin of Mrs. Leland and the three children, soaking the carpet, sprayed on the wall. And there were neck cuts. “Jesus,”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Blood Moon

“He shuts his eyes against the light of the moon and feels soft darkness closing around them and heat racing through them as they meld, her mouth opening to his, kissing, clinging . . . his body is alive, aching with want . . .”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Cold Moon

“They stagger on their four-inch platforms; their developing bodies have nothing like the strength required to make that walk look effortless.”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Cold Moon

“cyber shrines to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. People are seriously crazy. She is clicking through articles on the Virginia Tech shooter, now: Cho Seung Hui,”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, The Space Between

“guy before,”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Blood Moon

“If the Bureau is so concerned with cyberterrorism, where was it during the election, when democracy was being hacked by a totalitarian power?”
― Alexandra Sokoloff, Hunger Moon