Leslie Wolfe > Quotes

“People are bundles of pain and fear, each wearing their own brand of misery,” he continued. “Trust me, I know. When they’re at the end of their rope, they come here, with their stories.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Dawn Girl

“It was still early morning when Tess landed at O’Hare, bringing her the ultimate enjoyment of driving through Chicago’s infamous, rush-hour traffic.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Dawn Girl

“Most people wouldn’t be caught dead in the heart of the Florida Everglades at dusk. A treacherous land of myriad insects and predators, it kept visitors away effectively. Blood-seeking insects don’t even matter for the accidental visitor, more concerned with the few but deadly poisonous snake species, the huge pythons, and the 10-foot alligators. Here, in the Glades, only the skilled and the irresponsible venture, and the latter don’t usually make it out. Matthew”
― Leslie Wolfe, Dawn Girl

“We always assume we have time. There’s never any time. Every day we’re alive is borrowed against the unforeseen.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“Cheating is not something that happens to people. Cheating is something that people make happen.”
― Leslie Wolfe, If I Go Missing

“How I wish I’d taken the time to ask him everything I wanted to, when he was still here, with us. We always assume we have time. There’s never any time. Every day we’re alive is borrowed against the unforeseen.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“The human race never fails to impress, in both directions. For each act of such gruesome cruelty, fortunately, we see daily wonders, acts of kindness that people bring to other people, and that helps preserve whatever faith I still have in humankind”
― Leslie Wolfe, Glimpse of Death

“You have to learn to see things through the eyes of different people. Expect things that are not worth doing, based on your system of values, to be well worth it for someone else. For instance, if you wouldn't consider stealing two dollars from someone else's unguarded desk, don't imagine that everyone else thinks the same.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Alex Hoffmann: Five Exciting Thrillers, One Riveting Series

“Most people have no idea that one third of killers get away with it, in modern-day America.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Watson Girl

“In some people, studies had shown, atavism had preserved the ability to identify such danger, allowing them to react instinctively and recognize predators without even seeing them, or by looking at mundane photos.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Dawn Girl

“My life resembles a kintsugi bowl, built from the shards of a once perfectly fine existence, only the lacquer holding the pieces together is not powdered with gold dust, but with tears and resilience and courage.”
― Leslie Wolfe, If I Go Missing

“People didn’t care about people anymore. They lived insulated in their own bubbles, intoxicated and overwhelmed by too”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl You Killed

“The bigger the threat, the calmer they get. Have you ever seen a tiger freak out? Or a lion?”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Watson Girl

“I want you to wrap this hand carefully to preserve evidence,” she told the firefighter. “I scratched that bastard before he threw the grenade. I have his DNA under my fingernails.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Casino Girl

“Latesha’s smile is as fake as her breasts. Although I suspect she went cheap on those tits of hers and just stuffed her bra with silicone padding instead. Her eyes are throwing poisonous darts at me”
― Leslie Wolfe, A Beautiful Couple

“It is important that we actively work, as a nation, to improve the standard of living in other countries, but not beyond the point where we stop being able to maintain our own. If we continue to do that, we will soon lose the ability to help anyone, including ourselves. However, we can improve the standard of living in those areas in many different ways. We could share knowledge, innovation, healthcare advances, and best practices. We could make targeted infusions of capital and investment to the local economies.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Devil's Move

“They say all happy families are happy the same, but all miserable ones are miserable each in their own unique way. It might’ve been true, but all abusive men were the same, leaving a trail of pain and suffering behind them that never ended, and getting away with it for much too long.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Beneath Blackwater River

“Men are like children. They think they can lie to us, but they can’t, mostly because they don’t pay attention to anything around them, and because they’re careless slobs. If he’s cheating, there will be traces for you to find. Look carefully at his clothes. Check his car. If she exists, she’s been in that car, leaving her hair behind. Pull his credit card statements, see what he spent, where, how much. If she exists, he takes her out.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Glimpse of Death

“People might or might not remember someone’s actions for a while, but they never forgot how that someone made them feel. Rejection hurts the most and is the most unforgivable––and unforgettable––of all behaviors.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Beneath Blackwater River

“Os ricos vivem num mundo diferente, mas matam e morrem como os restantes de nós.”
― Leslie Wolfe

“When exactly did humans stop using rational thought in their day-by-day processes? Was it when workloads grew like cancer and the fight to survive dumbed us down to agitated amoeba levels? Was it when the culture we live in no longer respected the individual’s right to rest, to think, to create? In any case, regardless of means, it happened.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Taker of Lives

“beware of the woman who cuts her hair short; if she doesn’t have the patience for herself, she definitely hasn’t got any for you.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Casino Girl

“must’ve been the dumbest little mouse in her game,”
― Leslie Wolfe, If I Go Missing

“How she’d cried at the root of one, looking up through the branches at Grandma Aiyana’s body and calling her name until Grandpa Old Bear had covered her mouth with his warm, withered hand and taught her to never call the dead, to let the spirit be on its way, undisturbed by the grief of the living.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“the brain is a fragile thing, creating alternate realities when the real one is too painful to endure.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“Men like him never stopped killing.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“Please,” Alison said, “she’s just a little girl.” A lopsided smile tugged at the corner of the man’s mouth. “She is, isn’t she?” Then he added, sounding almost bitter. “They always are.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“An injury collector, while not an official term listed in the DSM-5, is what some behaviorists call the narcissist who is unable to forgive and move on past the trauma or injury they suffered. Instead, they hold on to it, reliving the negative feelings associated with the injury, because it gives them something they relish. In”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl Hunter

“Why do you always expect the worst? I don’t.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Watson Girl

“her”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon