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The Bone Collector

Jeffery Deaver

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.”

“We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.”

“But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.”

“The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires.”

“I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own.” The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures.”

“This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. —ARISTOTLE”

“Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of it. I really wish he had finished his thought.)”

“WHEN YOU MOVE THEY CAN’T GETCHA ‘A”

“If they were expected,” she shot back, “then they wouldn’t be breakthroughs, now would they?”

“He believed there was nothing essentially unAmerican about greed or lust—hey, those qualities were encouraged everywhere from Wall Street to Capitol Hill.”

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