Nicole > Nicole's Quotes

“My God, is this a date?" Jeff had asked when I asked if I could bring her along.
"I don't know," I said. "She might still be happily lesbian.”
― Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone

“Rule number one of crime scene work: If it's wet and sticky and it ain't yours, don't touch it.

-Terry Cooper, crime scene specialist, Georgia Bureau of Investigation”
― Beverly Connor, Dead Guilty

“I don't think we should have a dinosaur that poops kids.”
― Beverly Connor, Dead Hunt

“You don't ask of Justice; it asks of you."
-Danny Rollings”
― James Fox, Killer on Campus

“It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.”
― James Fox, Killer on Campus

“I am...only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace.
- Danny Rollings”
― James Fox, Killer on Campus

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“So, was the crime lab a reward for almost being killed?'
'No, it was a reward for not being Bryce,”
― Beverly Connor, Scattered Graves

“All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.”
― William Bradford

“And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young man [aboard the Mayflower], one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would always be contemning the poor people in their [sea]sickness, and cursing them daily with grievous execrations, and did not let to tell them, that he hoped to help cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end, and to make merry with what they had; and if he were by any gently reproved, he would curse and swear most bitterly.

But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. Thus his curses light on his own head; and it was an astonishment to all his fellows, for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him.”
― William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647

“All four of them looked at Diane as if she had said Kendel had just returned from her trip and had brought them a unicorn skeleton.”
― Beverly Connor, Dust to Dust

“So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren, then they were to him: and they no more Authority to Sell him, than they had to Slay him. [Genesis 37].”
― Samuel Sewall, The Selling Of Joseph

“An unlawful war can't make lawful captives.”
― Samuel Sewall, The Selling Of Joseph

“Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

“From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.”
― Jonathan Edwards

“... it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...”
― Jonathan Edwards

“... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe...
Polly Baker”
― Benjamin Franklin

“[the Devil]... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it...”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o’clock, and another when he had done his day’s work.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“...Conviction that it was out Interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping...”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“... the Existence of Deity, that he made the World, and govern'd it by his Providence; that the most acceptable Service of God was the doing Good to Man; that our Souls are immortal; and that all Crime will be punished and Virtue rewarded either here or hereafter...”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Flesh forgets. Bone remembers.”
― Jefferson Bass

“I might be turning into a guy who talks to himself, though." After a pause, I added, "Yep. I've been meaning to speak to you about that.”
― Jefferson Bass, Flesh and Bone

“... I watched in astonishment, Jess reached up and cupped Miss Georgia's breasts in her hands, giving them an appraising squeeze and admiring nod. A moment later, Miss Georgia returned the gesture...”
― Jefferson Bass, Flesh and Bone

“...emotional reactions are pure after-all they can be neither manufactured nor changed.”
― Anthony E. Zuiker

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon