But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is...

Her face was a grimace of surprised pain as she slid unconscious down the back of the tub and under the water. I held her under for several minutes after the blow, watching as the...

Then his fingers trembled on her ankle—tightened around her foot. His head shifted, turning toward her. With a growl, she crashed the poker down onto his head. His hand jerked. A gurgling noise arose, not...

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

Von allen Abenteuern ist Selbstmord das literarischste, mehr noch als Mord.

I decided not to charge you with murder, because that would require me filling out lots of paperwork. So you’re free to go.

He’d once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in...

Death doesn’t have to be the end of it. Our love for her is stronger than the grave.

This is going to be murder,” Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. “Pure murder.””I’m glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you’re talking...

I had a dream about you. You wondered if there were any more honest men left in the world, and so did I, because I worked for the government, and if there were any honest...

He’d searched every corner of his mind looking for ways to avoid a rendezvous with Chico. In the last twenty years, Slade had come a long way from the ghetto orphanage where he’d grown up,...

As a rule, I had murder in my mind. That day, I had it in my heart.

You don’t kill someone you love, do you?

Women, can’t live with them, can’t murder/suicide without them

Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.

I’ve been known to be contrary. When something pushes me, I shove back. Even if the one doing the pushing is me. It would have been easy to gut him then and there. Satisfying. But...

Don’t make me kill you at this hour in the morning Jimmy. It’s not civilized.

There’s a saying that you can’t put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it’s so much lower than you would think. Yes, human...

How Many Lumberjacks Does it Take to Ravish, Maim and Kill Five Feisty Female Co-eds?Read ‘Lumberjacked’ by Rich Bottles Jr. to find out!Lumberjacked: A Supernatural Tale of Murder and Mayhem in the Mountain State.

The South African Police Services and Road Traffic Inspectorate staff, who also attend to murder scenes, do benefit from a monthly danger allowance,

I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could not free himself. It in my grip, I in its, he thought.

He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.

The evidence shows us there was an accident that deteriorated into panic and then murder.

There were a lot of things he could say. “Son of a bitch!” would have been a good one. Or he could say, “Welcome to civilization!” He could have said, “Laugh this one off!” He...

The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas...

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

But isn’t it likely that everyone in this world…has killed someone or other on their way to the top?…All I wanted was a chance to be a man–and for that, one murder is enough.

It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!

Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance...

Don’t misconceive God; His purpose is for us to enjoy fruits, but He gave us seeds so that we can grow the fruits. Misuse of a seed is a murder of fruits!

Just because I murdered a man—my boss—doesn’t mean I deserve to be fired. In fact, as I see it and saw it, I should be promoted for showing initiative and seeing an opportunity and opening...

The truth is I did try to stab him. I tried to stab him with a butter knife. Why? Because it seemed deadlier than trying to stab him with a melting stick of butter.

from the Basement tapes Eric outdid Dylan with the apologies. To the untrained eye, he seemed sincere. The psychologists on the case found Eric less convincing. They saw a psychopath. Classic. He even pulled the...

How simple death without weapons was. How safe for the killer.(“Mind Over Murder”)

The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.

The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

Kusanagi had met plenty of good, admirable people who’d been turned into murderers by circumstance. There was something about them he always seemed to sense, an aura that they shared. Somehow, their transgression freed them...

Dr. Kevorkian’s been accused of murder five times. Does that make him a murderer?

You understand nothing,” I told him with a weary shake of the head, but I would not try to make him understand. That there was no justification for it: the murder of another, no matter...

God made them as stubble to our swords.

… is it truly possible to steal a life, if… the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who ‘murders’ does no more than transgress against the will of another,...

He remembered a conversation he’d once had with a Chief Constable some years back, when he asked the Chief if in his experience he believed there was such a thing as the ‘perfect murder’. The...

I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Honestly, I don’t understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

Essay on Adam”There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell.Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four:he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him.Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam.The first, that he...

I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty.

They say that even of a good thing you can have too much. But I doubt it. True, such good things as sunbathing, beer, and tobacco may be intemperately pursued to the detriment of their...

Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing,...

In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder” was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.