Faith doesn’t move mountains, Detective. It just obscures the view.

For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

I don’t want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn’t the same as being right.

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

Regress towards progress – Dr Wannamaker

False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head.” – Stephanie Carovella

The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can’t stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can’t stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.At...

Rage and despair shook her for minutes or hours. She was unaware of the passage of time. Finally spent, she retreated inward and collapsed onto the floor in a fetal position, the letter in shreds...

Sometimes death is even better than to confess a secret.

I’ve always said women are vicious creatures – Detective Zach Grimes

When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a...

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain’t a heck of a way to be in...

Because I want to have sex with him–and because that’s sinful–I’m blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.

Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn’t kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth.

I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon.

Whose Daddy’s Little Girl Now?