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I've been stalked.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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What's Mark working on in Denver?" "I have no idea. Some special
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We ignore intuition at our peril,
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two blocks down from my house? What the hell is going on?" "Nothing good," Marino says. I Google Sonny's Lawn Care. There's no such
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every time you get rid of one toad there's another to take his place
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broiling heat, and here I was standing out in the middle of it because he wouldn't leave me alone.
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
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When there's lightning, don't stand alone or think you'll be protected by hiding in the trees. Find the nearest ditch and lie as low in it as you can.
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called What to Do When the Police Leave written by Bill Jenkins, whose
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nothing like shooting a man while he's down
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When you dine with the devil use a long spoon, and I've repeatedly preached that to him, too.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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Some people should never be gone, and those that should hang around forever.
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Rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
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But to whom much is given much also can be taken,
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I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
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Some people simply want company.
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Don't announce what you fear could happen or someone evil might make it come true.
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on another spree. I constantly looked for her when I was with Lucy
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But caffeine, cigarettes and cholesterol, the grim reapers of the common man - God forbid I should give them up.
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prostitute he just murdered. It's called The Camden Town Murder
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People who are unhappy in relationships carry about them a distinct air of discontent and isolation.
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There's a penalty for trying to do what's right. The dark forces don't like it, and stress will make you sick.
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He believes that all kindnesses will be repaid. He also believes that evil will get its ugly reward,
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
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When you are beaten and raped as a child, your life is murdered even if your body isn't.
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She can love one minute and feel nothing the next, not even anger or pain, because after a while those, too, will pass.
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The word need is never good. I hope you never use it when you're talking about me,
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What the hell. You die. Everybody dies. So you die healthy. So what?
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Our government spies and lies. Those trusted to uphold and enforce the law use it to their advantage instead.
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Hate makes you stupid.
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War has become our national industry, like automotives and steel and the railroads once were.
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Absolute power has corrupted and the absence of checks and balances seems complete.
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I was a small insect faced with a formidable male network web in which I might be ensnared but never a part.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets
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Phisoderm, not an inch spared, not the inside of my ears and nose,
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You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.
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Succinctly put, a crime scene is like an archaeology site. If an excavation is botched or bulldozed away, there's no going back.
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on his lips. He's in jeans and loafers, a Red Sox windbreaker
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Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
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I tended to hold love hostage in my heart because, if expressed, I feared it might abandon me as many people in my life had.
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I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely
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The beat of a butterfly wing causes a hurricane on another part of the planet.
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Just as Jean-Baptiste can hear without ears, his father can become deaf at will.
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Serenity comes from knowing what you can and can't change, Nancy
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And are they consistent with the injuries inflicted by the electric chair, with
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The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
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maybe it explains something to you," said marino, who always got impatient with lucy's computer talk. "but it don't explain shit to me.
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I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
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Most of what went wrong in the Ripper investigation was due to ignorance.
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In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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The next three days were typical for the holiday season. No one was in or returning telephone calls. Parking
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Time on Earth is an opportunity to become more highly evolved, and then people move on or cross over - a
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In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
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The truth is none of us always does what's right or fair.
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That's one of the perks if you're sick. You already feel bad enough and then people make you feel worse because they don't want to bother you.
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Gravity will get you. Life is inclined toward falling. Not standing or flying, indeed, barely sitting.
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You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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You know what the best security system is? Window shades.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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Thoughts are odd misfires
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He has Raynaud's syndrome
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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Eddie Heath had come in naked with IV needles, catheter, and dressings still in place. They
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Predators watch their quarry. It starts with the eyes.
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My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
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The body was not yet fully rigorous and was still slightly warm as I began swabbing any area that a washcloth might have missed. I
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Isolation is the cruelest of punishments, and it had never occurred to me that I was something less than human because I wasn't a man.
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Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.
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When what we believe we've mastered is no longer predictable we're not fine. The world suddenly is a very scary place. It loses its charm.
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Odors have their own story to tell and the secret is to block them out after they're no longer relevant.
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Some sort of psychopath, like a serial killer.
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Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?
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The world is full of people who mean no harm and cause a great deal of it.
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Technology made everything better for a while and now it seems life is circling back around to the dark ages.
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You're only as good as the people around you.
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He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.
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Wit is the genius to perceive and the metaphor to express.' Or
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The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
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Maybe nothing phased her until she was beaten to death on her marble floor, and I envision a blitz attack.
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Disrespect is a symptom of weakness, of smallness, of an existential problem. By acting rude to me he's showing me what he really thinks of himself.
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aborigine, angry, beautiful, fiery, fearless, remorseless and untouchable, overly
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If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
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When she gave you a meal, she gave you herself.
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I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
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We rarely are conscious of those primitive anxieties that creep out from under reason. And the only way to banish them is to turn on all the lights.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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Everyone is doing forensics.
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I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
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