Kristi

“In a way it was the same impulse as wishing to be a detective: to know everything; to understand everything; to experience everything.”
― Charles Finch, An Extravagant Death

“Every time you think you’ve hit bottom when it comes to what the human nose can’t do they take it down another notch.”
― Spencer Quinn, Up on the Woof Top

“LUCAS HUNG ON, and Bob said to Rae, “If this works, I’m probably going to have to kiss Lucas’s ass. You might not want to be here for that.” “No time for it anyway,” Lucas said. “If this works, we need to get down to Quantico and check this stuff out.” Rae: “Why? We’ll just have him email it to us.” Lucas rubbed his face, and sighed. “Shit. You know, deep in my heart, I don’t understand that we don’t always have to go places to get things anymore,” Lucas said. “I was about to drive an hour over to the Medical Examiner’s Office to look at Ritter’s belt. The investigator sent me the iPhone photos in seven minutes. Kind of scizzes me out, the way it comes out of the sky now.”
― John Sandford, Twisted Prey

“Dr Bairstow regarded him icily. ‘All my staff are handpicked.’ ‘That’s quite true, actually,’ said Markham, sunnily. ‘I’ve been handpicked many times. Mug shots. Police line-ups. ID parades. People are always pointing at me and shouting, “That’s him.”.”
― Jodi Taylor, An Argumentation of Historians