Jodé Millman > Quotes

“A real page turner...find out what happens to Jessie Martin’s career, baby and relationships. How does Terrence Butterfield manipulate the system and Jessie.”
― Jode Susan Millman, The Midnight Call

“There was no denying that whores surrounded him. Not just the women on the flat screen, but the political whores who'd attended his meeting. He replayed his own conciliatory words and wondered whether he was one as well”
― Jode Susan Millman, Hooker Avenue

“Jessie eyed Ebony. As a lawyer, her words had been her sharpest weapons, slicing her adversaries through the heart. Her hands never got dirty, and the only blood on them was from paper cuts. Conversely, Ebony infiltrated the trenches and clawed her way through the shit to ensure public safety”
― Jode Susan Millman, Hooker Avenue

“She smiled to herself, knowing that personal plans were a fluid proposition when you were a cop”
― Jode Susan Millman, Hooker Avenue

“The rules of professional conduct required a lawyer to represent his or her client to the best of his or her ability and abide by the client's decisions. Would she have used any legal means to exonerate a client, even if it meant endangering another attorney's license? Jessie feared her answer to the question. She was a litigator, a gladiator, like every other attorney. When representing her clients, she had done, and would do, everything legally permissible to protect them. Even if, like Jeremy, it meant catering to the whims of a madman”
― Jode Susan Millman, Hooker Avenue

“Before Ryan's murder, she'd trusted the criminal justice system wholeheartedly. But that was before she'd almost lost everything she cherished. She couldn't face another attack on her integrity and professionalism without imperiling the fragile sanity she clung to like a life preserver”
― Jode Susan Millman, Hooker Avenue

“She followed the highway across the bridge, comparing her own life to the river's flow, swift and steady. She'd weathered obstacles - near death, loss and betrayal - which were like the boulders protruding through the turbulent current. Those hurdles may have slowed her down, but they'd never beaten her”
― Jode Susan Millman, Hooker Avenue

“Three women were missing; one of them, another old friend. It appeared that death haunted her like a bloodhound. First, Ryan. Now, Becky. Although they weren't the same degree of friendship with her, they were threads woven into the fabric of her life. Without them, the material snagged, weakening her structure and threatening to unravel her life”
― Jode Susan Millman, Hooker Avenue