Teri > Teri's Quotes

“You ever think that life is something that happens and that you’re not ever completely prepared for?”
― John Lescroart, The Vig

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.”
― Robert Crais

“Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.”
― Robert Crais, The Last Detective

“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Self-Defense

“All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Self-Defense

“Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Self-Defense

“Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, When the Bough Breaks

“They say you don’t grow up until you lose your parents. Frankly, I’d prefer to be immature.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Victims

“I saw this cartoon in the paper, once. That Viking, Hagar the Horrible? He’s standing on the mountaintop, holding his hands to the heavens, shouting “Why me?” And down from the heavens comes the answer: “Why not?” Maybe that’s the ultimate truth; what right to do I have to expect a smooth ride?”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Survival of the Fittest

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes