Steven Womack > Quotes

“I spread the photocopied articles in front of me and decided to start by cross-referencing the duplicates. Once I had the extra copies off to one side, I divided everything up by subject and put them in chronological order. I felt very organized and virtuous and even a bit obsessive-compulsive. Okay, I reasoned, you can’t force order on to your life but you can impose order on your stuff.”
― Steven Womack, Music City Murders: Harry James Denton, #1-6

“You seem more alive. Just make sure you stay that way.” “Oh, don’t worry. I intend to. This is just a really interesting intellectual exercise.” “Hey, dumbass. You forget that somebody killed somebody over this intellectual exercise. Remember the old saying: It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye…” He tipped his beer bottle toward me. “Then it’s frickin’ hilarious.”
― Steven Womack, Fade Up From Black: The Return of Harry James Denton

“How long have you two been married?” “Just over a year.” “You get along okay most of the time?” He shrugged. “Can get a little rocky,” he said. “Thank God for boxed wine and make-up sex.” I smiled. “If nothing else, I admire your honesty. Can’t say much for your judgment, but at least you seem to own it.”
― Steven Womack, Fade Up From Black: The Return of Harry James Denton

“Harry, I turn forty this year,” she said, her eyes filling. Bells went off in my head like a pinball jackpot. I thought carefully, keeping my jaw in neutral pending a careful check to make sure my brain was fully engaged and in gear. Somewhere in the innumerable combinations of the twenty-six letters that make up the English alphabet, there were the right words for just this moment. Now if I could only find them.”
― Steven Womack, Music City Murders: Harry James Denton, #1-6

“Good heavens, I thought. Just for grins, I turned to the section on churches and counted pages. There were eleven pages of church listings, versus ten pages of sex listings. Yay, Jesus. Sinners down by one.”
― Steven Womack, Music City Murders: Harry James Denton Series Vol. 4-6

“In this town, green doesn’t mean go; it means look both ways and, when all the idiots have finished running the light, proceed cautiously.”
― Steven Womack, Music City Murders: Harry James Denton, #1-6

“There wasn’t time to read the articles. I threaded in microfilm, reeled as quickly as possible to the right day, found each article, then dropped a quarter into the slot to print it. It was monkey work; a high school intern could have done it. Unfortunately, I had neither the intern nor the monkey.”
― Steven Womack, Music City Murders: Harry James Denton, #1-6

“Remember!” Leo said in the recording. “There are no new stories!” His arms flapped as he spoke. “Human beings have been telling each other stories since the beginning of time, when they were trying to keep each other awake to tend to the fire so the sabre-tooth tigers didn’t come in and eat the babies!” Then he held up his right index finger. “There are no new stories, but there are new voices. Each one of you has a distinct, unique voice. All stories have been told, but all voices have not been heard. That’s what you must find and that is what you must run with!”
― Steven Womack, Fade Up From Black: The Return of Harry James Denton

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― Steven Womack, Way Past Dead