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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“As Winston Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going." I know from hard experience that can be the longest journey down the darkest road. And I have learned that sometime the shortest distance isnt' forward, but up.”
― Tami Hoag, Down the Darkest Road

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

“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

“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

“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

“She couldn’t concentrate enough to lose herself in a book—her lifelong method of escape.”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“The bookcases were lined with titles, hundreds of books shelved by subject in alphabetical order.-Everything from aberrant behavior to the mysteries of zen.”
― Tami Hoag

“The zombie is the angle. You want people to get to the rest of what you just said? Embrace the zombie. We live in a society of self-absorbed, unaware drones desensitized to the suffering of others.”
― Tami Hoag, The 9th Girl

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

“Tattoos are a road map of the bearer’s personal journey.”
― Tami Hoag, The 9th Girl

“Throw up" Victor said.

Bacteria, he believed, would run up his arms and gain access to his brain through his ear canals. "Vomit. Puke. Spew. Disgorge. Regorge. Discharge- like excrement."
"Victor, stop it!" Doll snapped. "You're making me nauseous."
"Talk--vomit words. Sound and sound alike," he said.”
― Tami Hoag

“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