Dorothy Williamson

“There should be a word for it, Ryan thought. A word was needed to describe the unique emotion a murder detective experienced when they looked upon the decaying carcass of what had once been a living, breathing person. It was another kind of privilege, he thought, because only a handful of people would see the remains of Father Jacob Jamieson in such a compromised, vulnerable state; only they would know how to treat those remains with respect and care—which mattered, whether or not the person who’d once inhabited that body turned out to have been good or bad. Sadness, disgust, nausea, impotence… Ryan felt them all, yet none of those words was adequate to describe the whole, raw experience.”
― L.J. Ross, Cuthbert's Way

“Trying to remember the behavioral change stairway model that helped him influence people’s actions—active listening, empathy, rapport, influence, behavioral change.”
― Toni Anderson, Colder Than Sin

“Forty years of socialism has filled the courts with judges who believe that criminal acts are due to social causes, and that punishment only makes it worse.”
― Mike Bond, Goodbye Paris

“No matter what we say or do,” Mitch added, “they run right over us. They use our tax money to hire consultants to prove what they want, hire PR firms to sell the project to us − they lie and we don’t have the millions of dollars to fight back.” He said nothing, then added sadly, “People don’t realize we don’t live in a democracy anymore.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise