Déjà Dead
Kathy Reichs
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.”
“I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.”
“I needed him here like I needed a yeast infection.”
“He looked like a man on his way to a prostate exam.”
“I’m always interested in the future. I plan to spend the rest of my life there.”
“From time to time the human species spawns predators that feed on those around them. They’re not the species. They’re mutations of the species. In my opinion these freaks have no right to suck oxygen from the atmosphere. But they’re here, so I help cage them up and put them where they can’t hurt others. I make life safer for the folks who get up, go to work each day, raise their kids or their tomatoes, or their tropical fish, and watch the ball game in the evening. They are the human species.”
“Ideas come easily to me, enacting them comes harder. I usually let things go. Perhaps it's an escape hatch, my way of allowing myself to double back and ease out the side door on a lot of my schemes. Irresolute about my social life, obsessive in my work.”
“I have a rule that has served me well in life. When in doubt, do nothing. If you're not sure, don't buy it, don't comment, don't commit. Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret.”
“We spoke some, moving our mouths, forming words, saying nothing. Mostly we sat. It wasn’t the comfortable silence of old friends accustomed to each other, but a dialogue of uneasiness.”
“I am a woman whose moods are influenced by the weather, my outlook rising and falling with the barometer.”
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Book Keywords:
advice, single-women, broken-heart, humor, rules
