T.J. Brearton > Quotes

“Life was too abundant in its diversity – it wasn’t fair to get just one.”
― T.J. Brearton, No Way Back

“with”
― T.J. Brearton, Habit

“We joke about how kids who used to leave the house with nothing grew into adults afraid to go fifty yards without a device linking them to every imaginable support and convenience.”
― T.J. Brearton, When He Vanished

“Shannon”
― T.J. Brearton, The Killing Time

“icosahedron”
― T.J. Brearton, The Perfect Fiancé

“she’d left because she’d decided there was no more redemption possible for American culture: We’ve devolved into a mindless consumer society, arguing over whatever hot topic the media serves up on any given day.”
― T.J. Brearton, Her Husband's Lies

“the”
― T.J. Brearton, The Complete Titan Series & Detective Tom Lange Box Set (Titan #1-4)

“But women couldn’t understand about sons and their fathers. That all their lives, sons were condemned to seek their father’s approval. And when a father betrayed a son’s trust, it never fully returned.”
― T.J. Brearton, Dark Web

“Each”
― T.J. Brearton, Dark Country: five book box set

“volunteer details about what and where. “The”
― T.J. Brearton, Dark Web

“sex crimes and a man”
― T.J. Brearton, A Woman Found Dead in a Farmhouse

“Do you always say exactly what’s on your mind, Deputy King?”
― T.J. Brearton, Gone

“Lenny had twelve residential clients in the small town of New Brighton deep in the Adirondack Mountains. He plowed them out for twenty-five bucks a pop. Most of them were older people; all the young ones either had their own plows or shoveled out by hand.”
― T.J. Brearton, Dark Web

“In the mental health field, suicide is part of the diseases of despair. Alcoholism, drug addiction, suicidal ideation. It’s a physical health condition. We don’t ‘commit’ a heart attack. Saying it associates blame, like committing a crime or a sin. The stigma can deter people from coming forward who are contemplating suicide. And also, a person may attempt a suicide, but they may not complete it.”
― T.J. Brearton, Her Perfect Secret

“everything that was gained by someone in this world was taken from someone else. You couldn’t create energy out of nothing – you couldn’t create wealth out of nothing. Wealth”
― T.J. Brearton, Survivors

“kidnapping, taking John off somewhere in a bid for revenge. But it still feels too far-fetched, more likely that Leland is just dumb enough to drop by my house unannounced late at night, a capricious move that’s very much in character. And then there’s the file cabinet in John’s office. The top drawer wrenched open, the bottom one still locked. I was in the middle of going through it all when Leland showed up. I need”
― T.J. Brearton, When He Vanished

“alongside”
― T.J. Brearton, Her Perfect Secret

“He reached the end of the driveway and made the turn onto Bluff Lane, a short street that fed into River Street. From there he took River over to the main route, 9N, hung a left and was on the way toward his customers.”
― T.J. Brearton, Dark Web

“all of us are actually on a spectrum of DID, in a sense. We all dissociate from things in our lives, from memories and past traumas, to some extent.”
― T.J. Brearton, Her Perfect Secret

“She was fighting a disease of despair not of her own making. She didn’t ask for her circumstances. But she was doing everything in her power to overcome them. Sometimes we don’t make it. But that’s not the important part. What’s important is how hard we try.”
― T.J. Brearton, Her Perfect Secret

“At the BAU we have what we call the ‘Mr. Rogers’ effect — you can trace all human behavior to love or a lack thereof.”
― T.J. Brearton, The Husbands

“negativistic thinking. A necessary survival mechanism from when we were running from the tigers and bears. Keeping a lookout for the next potential threat. Now we’ve killed most those lions and bears and put the rest in zoos. But we still have that wariness.”
― T.J. Brearton, Habit

“You only died when you outlived your usefulness. That was the nature of things. He”
― T.J. Brearton, Gone