Tami Hoag > Quotes

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.”
― Tami Hoag, A Thin Dark Line

“But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. May you grow strong at the broken places.”
― Tami Hoag, Secrets to the Grave

“She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.”
― Tami Hoag, Deeper Than the Dead

“They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.”
― Tami Hoag, Kill the Messenger

“a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought”
― Tami Hoag, Kill the Messenger

“Never show your fear or your weaknesses, doll. Someone will spin you around and knock you flat with it when you least expect it.”
― Tami Hoag, Kill the Messenger

“i have no desire to spend my life dancing backward.”
― Tami Hoag, Night Sins / Guilty as Sin

“We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?”
― Tami Hoag, Dust to Dust

“Anybody can be a victim, and anybody can flog themselves. Big fucking deal. But you put one foot on a ladder and climb to the next rung. Then you've done something. Then you've made a difference. And then what happens matters. Otherwise, it's just old news, and nobody wants to hear about it.”
― Tami Hoag, Down the Darkest Road

“I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.”
― Tami Hoag, Kill the Messenger

“He had no interest in passing up experiences or putting opportunities off to a tomorrow that might never come.”
― Tami Hoag, Deeper Than the Dead

“Sure, why not?" she said. "You know, you read about a crime in the paper and you think how terrible for the victims, and then you turn the page and move on.”
― Tami Hoag, A Thin Dark Line

“It’s factual, logical, essential. I believe in justice. I believe in the struggle for the greater good. I believe the collective evil metastasizes with malignancies in the souls of individuals.”
― Tami Hoag, A Thin Dark Line

“Perps didn't always get their just deserts in this life. That was one of the reasons she kept believing in God, the hope that he would kick ass in the afterlife.”
― Tami Hoag, Prior Bad Acts

“She needed care and time; enough space not to feel threatened, but not so much that she could retreat.”
― Tami Hoag, Dust to Dust

“From the dawn of time to the end of time, the world would never run short of cold, cold hearts.”
― Tami Hoag, Cold Cold Heart

“Every family has its secrets, and those secrets can run deep—deeper than lies, deeper than death. And they impact every member of that family in ways we can’t know.”
― Tami Hoag, Deeper Than the Dead

“Insults are the last resort of an insecure man with a crumbling argument,”
― Tami Hoag, The Boy

“Forward had become a mantra months ago. Move forward physically, psychologically, spiritually, metaphorically. Movement seemed to pull taut the lines upon which facts and ideas aligned themselves in his mind. Movement maintained order.”
― Tami Hoag, A Thin Dark Line

“For me the most valuable part of this kind of research, however, is just hanging out with the men and women on the job, listening to them, absorbing the atmosphere and attitudes of their world.”
― Tami Hoag, Cry Wolf

“Life is what happens while we’re making other plans,”
― Tami Hoag, Deeper Than the Dead

“I liked my house. I liked my stuff. I had to start over once. I don't want to have to do it again. But life says, ‘Tough bounce,' and what are my options? Take it on the chin and keep marching.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“I know how to boil water, that doesn't make me a gourmet chef.”
― Tami Hoag, Deeper Than the Dead

“We all change. The causes are different; that’s all. Some people change because they want to, some because they have to. Sometimes it’s a choice and sometimes it’s not. You didn’t get to pick.”
― Tami Hoag, Cold Cold Heart

“The past overshadows the present foreshadows the future.”
― Tami Hoag, A Thin Dark Line

“Man, y'all make the Addams family look like Ozzie and Harriet."(Annie)”
― Tami Hoag

“Parker suspected that Jace had been born an adult. At nineteen he had a larger sense of duty and responsibility than ninety percent of the people Parker knew.”
― Tami Hoag, Kill the Messenger

“Man, just so you know,...I am NEVER getting on your bad side.

Vince forced half a grin. "Like we say in Chicago. She had it coming.”
― Tami Hoag, Deeper Than the Dead