Jedediah Berry Quotes

She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.

I was to be buried inside my own creation, the better to keep its secrets. I will not tell you more, for your sake. But if you ask, I will answer.

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.

This meeting went on for some time, with only the weather having anything to say, and the weather spoke only of itself.

It is not enough to say that you have had a hunch. Once written down, most such inklings reveal themselves for what they are: something to be tossed into a wishing well, not into a file.

The expert detective's pursuit will go unnoticed, but not because he is unremarkable. Rather, like the suspect's shadow, he will appear as though he is meant to be there.

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.

Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

He was the only person awake, but he might as well have been alone and dreaming.

The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.

The coded message is a lifeless thing, mummified and entombed. To the would-be cryptologist we must offer the same advice we would give the grave-robber, the spelunker, and the sorcerer of legend: beware what you dig up; it is yours.

A hat is a snake is a lamp is a child is an insect is a clothesline hung with telephones.

On Memory: Imagine a desk covered with papers. That is everything you are thinking about. Now imagine a stack of file drawers behind it. That is everything you know. The trick is to keep the desk and the file drawers as close to one another as possible, and the papers neatly stacked.