Quotes from Alafair Burke

There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.

I get sad every time I hear a person say "I don't read." It's like saying "I don't learn," or "I don't laugh," or "I don't live.

Cursing's for the uncreative. They say "Frack! on Battlestar Galactica, and everyone still knows what it means.

A word of advice: if the sex is a pain in the ass, you're doing it wrong.

I despise hearing about other people's problems, because I don't like most people, especially people who would be described as normal.

You make the best decisions you can make in the time you have to make them, and you move on.

So much past inside my present. —Feist

I thought it was endearing when we first got together. By the end I wanted to stab him in the hand every time he dismissed my cursing as an uncreative vocabulary. I think being able to use one little four letter word to convey a hundred different thoughts is pretty fucking creative.

In her experience, prefacing a statement with "To be honest" or "To tell you the truth" is a sure sign you're telling someone else what to believe—such as what was "good" for her, in this instance.

When he was gone I blocked his number and then deleted it from my phone. When I say good bye I mean it.

To know something, he argued, was not the same as to be certain beyond all doubt. And to believe something was definitely not the same as to know it.

Ethan groaned in embarrassment. "Oh my god, what was that? I sounded like a total chode." It was his new favorite word for someone who was a jerk. I had to look it up in the Urban Dictionary.

I'm not good at everything. Or, to be more honest, I'm pretty bad on some fairly major metrics. I'm selfish. I feel entitled to things always going my way. I despise hearing about other people's problems, because I don't like most people, especially people who would be described as normal. They say ignorance is bliss? I think bliss is for the ignorant.

short, I could do the work, but no one liked me.

history that everyone remembers. The moon landing. The day Kennedy was shot. The night the United States elected its first African-American president. The day the towers came down.

I stopped picking up after myself, put less effort into my appearance around the apartment, snapped at him on occasion. He seemed happy as ever, so I spent more time without him and was bossier when we were together. Before I knew it, it was like I was playing a game to see just how much Jack could take.

He was a shitty husband, a cruel and distant father, and had absolutely no empathy for other human beings.

Funny how that works. Whether everything goes right or nothing goes your way, booze always seems like a good idea.

A un certo punto avevano attaccato con una cover di Anything Anything dei Dramarama, e noi eravamo corsi a ballare sotto il palco, mentre il cantante strillava e si dimenava. […] E poi, quando era arrivato il ritornello finale, il cantante aveva continuato a ripetere senza sosta il verso finale: Just marry me, marry me, marry meeeee. All'improvviso si erano accese le luci, il cantante si era zittito e Jack si era inginocchiato davanti a me.

I'm absolutely certain." Say something enough and it not only sounds true, it becomes memory.

Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me." More like pour some penicillin

If only it were so easy. Real-world bad dreams are much worse.

Il était venu au commissariat de son plein gré. Il n'avait pas appelé d'avocat. Il avait accepté un test de résidu de tir. Et il utilisait le même mot de passe pour tous ses comptes. Jack était décidément toujours aussi naïf.

Like every part of his life was about cultivating an identity. He couldn't just be normal.