Deborah Rhine

“Maurice Blanche had instructed her time and time again that the solution to a problem or question was rarely to be found in sitting alone and that movement of the body also moved the mind. It was a crucial part of the pilgrimage, the journey toward truth.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Pardonable Lies

“People are funny. We can get stuck feeling a certain way, even when we don’t want to. We forget how to be anything other than down and defeated because feeling like that becomes a habit. Habits are hard to break. Something has to come along and kick us in the ass.”
― Ellery Adams, Paper Cuts

“Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, L.A. Confidential, Like Water for Chocolate, The Color Purple, Crazy Rich Asians, The Maltese Falcon, Pride and Prejudice, Lonesome Dove, The Namesake, The Remains of the Day, No Country for Old Men, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Wizard of Oz.”
― Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type

“If there was one thing the senior police officer understood, it was that everyone had strengths. And weaknesses. The important thing was to recognize them. And not expect something from someone who didn’t have it to give.”
― Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here