Jeffery Quotes

But it works that way if it works. ~ Jeffery Deaver

If you find that you have backed into a corner, it may be time to clear pride from your way forward. ~ Jeffery Herrick

I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me click the camera. (On photographing Mary Vecchio with slain student Jeffery Miller during the shootings of students at Kent State, April, 1970.) ~ John Filo

Every case I worked is closed. All the principals were either abducted and resettled . . . or zeroed," she said, using a verb that I'd heard from time to time if my principal was in a similar line of work. It had become popular among the Mossad. They liked to use shorthand they thought was American. Zero ~ Jeffery Deaver

Everything changed ... even the things we didn't want to. ~ Ashley Jeffery

I will never get to tell him I love him, even if my love was never enough. The empty ache grows and throbs in my chest. It's a living and breathing thing inside me. Sucking the air from my lungs, and the warmth from my body. The ache and pain leaves me hollow and cold. ~ Ashley Jeffery

In a matter-of-fact voice, she said to me, "Have you found out anything more than that?" She glanced toward the documents, which said nothing directly about her job. "Only that you were with the Sickle project. My associate's good but she couldn't get much more than that. Your archives're locked pretty tight. As for active files - if the group is still active . . ." She said nothing. "If it's still active, she didn't find anything on record." Though the nickname of the group was anglicized to the name of the farm implement, in fact it came from the Israeli Defense Force's name for assassination - in Hebrew, sikul memukad, which means "focused foiling. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Islands - of times when you're content, you don't think about the loss. Now it's like your world's underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water'll be there always but you'll find dry land ~ Jeffery Deaver

Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Even souvenir seekers. One of the worst contaminants was fellow officers, especially brass grandstanding if reporters were present and eager to grab a video bite to slap on the twenty-four-hour news cycle. One more glance at the circular coffin. Okay, Amelia Sachs thought: Knuckle time ... A phrase of her father's. The man had also been cop, a beat patrolman working the Deuce - Midtown South; back then Times Square was like Deadwood in the 1800s. "Knuckle time" referred to those moments when you have to go up against your worst fears. Breadbasket ... Sachs returned to the access door and climbed through it and down into the utility room below the cellar. Then she took the evidence collection gear bag from the other officer. Sachs said, "You search the basement, Jean?" "I'll do it now," Eagleston said. "And then get everything into the RRV." They'd done a fast examination of the cellar. But it was apparent that the perp had spent minimal time there. He'd grabbed Chloe, subdued ~ Jeffery Deaver

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house. ~ Jeffery Deaver

If I do not go to a doctor then he cannot say I am dying," explained Jeffery. "I have not been dying for two years. If I had gone to a doc and he told me I am dying, then I would've been set low for these two years. ~ Denise O'Hara

There is a distinct evolutionary advantage to being fuzzy, as much of the mammal kingdom had discovered, particularly when you wanted a human to scratch your back. The dwarven evolutionary tree had embraced this concept wholeheartedly only to discover that once you started talking and expressing opinions a human's desire to scratch your back became directly inverse to how fuzzy it was. ~ Jeffery Russell

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot. ~ Jeffery Deaver

His rules were unencumbered by my constraints - the Constitution and the laws promulgated thereunder. Still, ~ Jeffery Deaver

You know why you hate me so much, Jeffery? Because I look the way you feel. ~ Joe Pesci

I'm really not the cold fish everyone thinks I am. ~ Jeffery Deaver

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about. ~ Jeffery Deaver

The scars weren't overly red, but faded, some just light lines on my skin. Some of them I could cover with makeup, while others would never truly disappear. I felt like they completed me. A reflection of the way I felt inside.
Lo The Wild Hunt ~ Ashley Jeffery

eager' and 'anxious' aren't the same, or how 'disinterested' doesn't mean 'uninterested. ~ Jeffery Deaver

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone. ~ Jeffery Deaver

(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do so easily. This drives some people crazy. Cats do not even care what drives us crazy! ~ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

The best part about Omar was that he wasn't simply a decoy. Surrounding the robot was a grid of ultraviolet and microwave beams. When Loving or his partner, presumably from some distance, took up position and fired the typical three-burst round into Omar's head, empty and inexpensively replaceable, a computer would instantly correlate trajectory, speed and GPS coordinates and indicate on our handhelds where the shooter was, down to three feet. Would ~ Jeffery Deaver

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. ~ Jeffery Deaver

This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. - ARISTOTLE ~ Jeffery Deaver

He believed there was nothing essentially unAmerican about greed or lust - hey, those qualities were encouraged everywhere from Wall Street to Capitol Hill. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Elder Jeffery R. Holland: So we have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up and the truth to defend. We have wrongs to make right, truths to share and good to do. In short, we have a life of devoted discipleship to give in demonstrating our love of the Lord. We can't quit and we can't go back. ~ Jeffrey R. Holland

Someday you're gonna realize that no one on this earth will ever love you the way I do. You'll wish you'd said the words, wish you'd had this moment back. The truth is whether you say them or not I'll still go on loving you. Even when it hurts, even when I feel it cut me up inside and I bleed ... I'll still love you, but someday ... probably sooner than either of us want it to be ... .someday ... I'll hate you for it. Raylan's words are cruel and wonderful at the same time. ~ Ashley Jeffery

Rhyme's eyes closed. His head dipped. But only a few millimeters. As with most great men, Lincoln Rhyme's gestures of defeat were very subtle. ~ Jeffery Deaver

As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourself against fools. You have to protect yourself against people like me. ~ Jeffery Deaver

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher. ~ Jeffery Deaver

But the only thing that we should really be worried about is making our lives into the lives we want them to be. Maybe things don't get better until we make them better. ~ Jeffery Self

Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates - a very good game, by the way - I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even ~ Jeffery Deaver

People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might ~ Jeffery Deaver

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible. ~ Jeffery Taylor

The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires. ~ Jeffery Deaver

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Doctor, do you read the Harry Potter books?"
"Well, as a matter of fact, yes, I have."
"The fourth was my favorite. What was yours?"
"Umm, I don't know really."
"Is it possible," the prosecutor asked the witness, "that those writings of Mr. Kobel are merely attempts at writing a novel? Some big fantasy book."
"I…I can't imagine it."
"But it's possible, isn't it?"
"I suppose. But I'll tell you, he'll never sell the movie rights. ~ Jeffery Deaver

God don't give out certain. ~ Jeffery Deaver

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present – and that's constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life's illusory. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years.
When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, "Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind."
"That's debatable," said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Sam seabury is a fresh new face on the International Market...Jeffery Marsh ~ Mike Sullivan

Mungo was a gnome. Disguised as a dwarf. The blatantly false beard was a giveaway. It appeared that Mungo had crafted it himself out of hair collected from a wide assortment of cars and then glued it to his face. ~ Jeffery Russell

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere. ~ Jeffery Deaver

You can tell a lot about people if you just look. Life leaves marks. ~ Jeffery Weaver

Sutter Laughed. You were just being honest. Maybe needed is the wrong word. Wanted. I want to be wanted. I want to be someone's air. I want to feel like my presence makes their life better, just by simply existing. ~ Ashley Jeffery

The air was thick and still, chilled. Water dripped somewhere, irregularly. Was the sun positioned perfectly to send ruddy rays of light through the swirling dust within, throwing their shadows long and stark across the floor? Of course it was. ~ Jeffery Russell

In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential -- the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin. ~ Jeffery Farnol

The workbench was filled with glassware, books, syringes, tattooing machine parts, plastic bags, tools. Dozens of books on toxins and thousands of downloaded Internet documents, ~ Jeffery Deaver

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise. ~ Jeffery Deaver

little too undistinguished, a little ~ Jeffery Deaver

Curiously, while drone operators are perhaps the safest of all combat troops physically, they have among the highest rates of depression and post-traumatic stress in the military and national security services. Sitting at a video console in Colorado or New York City, killing someone six thousand miles away and then collecting the kids at gymnastics or football practice, having dinner and sitting down to watch Dancing with the Stars in your suburban den was disorienting beyond belief. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut
and your heart
in the opening scenes and never lets go. ~ Jeffery Deaver

You bet they did. Dellray was there. You should've seen him. He ordered every other case put on hold and said if metallurgy report wasn't in your hands ASAP there'd be one mean mother - you get the picture - reaming their - you get the rest of the picture. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories. ~ Jeffery Deaver

No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with life. ~ Ben Jeffery

But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Don't be afraid to let go. You have people rooting for you who you can't even see. And if you come up short the first time, you've only lost the battle. You can still win the war, so go for it.
- Jeffery ~ Rob Buyea

How do you weigh a soul?
Is it heavy with love or hate?
Does it deny the things it's done?
Does it even remember its own name?
Does it miss those it has loved?
Does it long for the life it's lost?
How do you weigh a soul?
After it has paid the highest cost,
Does it lose the will to live?
Without a physical shell
Does it sense without hands
That can touch and truly feel
Does it need sustenance to last?
A cold drink or warm meal
How do you weigh a soul?
Are souls even real? ~ Ashley Jeffery

In my twenties I was in Austin, Texas, finishing up yet another degree. I'd always loved hiking and, sick of the sedentary life of academia, I'd joined the orienteering club at the university. The sport, which originated in Sweden, is a competition in which you use a special map and a compass to navigate through wilderness you've never seen before, stopping at checkpoints to have a control card physically or electronically stamped. The first competitor to hit the "double circle" - the end of the route on the orienteering map - is the winner. I ~ Jeffery Deaver

The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography. ~ Jeffery Deaver

What brilliant criminals the Leader and his crowd are. They kidnap the nation by seizing our children.

From The Garden of Beasts. ~ Jeffery Deaver

You are either a pawn or a player. I am no one's tool. I am no one's pawn. I am a player. In the world of kill or be killed I'm a murderess. I will ripe out your throat with my bare hands and lick the blood from my fingers.-Lilith ~ Ashley Jeffery

I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time ... chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one ~ Jeffery Deaver

It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day. ~ Jeffery Deaver

First of all, being gay is far from a curse. It's more like an extra order of fries at Wendy's because the lady in the window isn't paying attention while she fills your bag. It's awesome. ~ Jeffery Self

Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads. ~ Ashley Jeffery

Mind control aims to change a person to the very core by altering their decisions, perception, beliefs, values, behaviors and relationships. ~ Jeffery Dawson

I've always loved Don Cheadle and Jeffery Wright and even Sam Jackson. ~ Andre Royo

Excellence does not come easy for quickly- An Excellent education does not, a successful mission does not, a strong, loving marriage does not, rewarding personal relationships do not. It is simply a truism that nothing very valuable can come without significant sacrifice, effort, and patience on our part. ~ Jeffery R. Holland

Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one's own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice - even giving up one's life. ~ Jeffery Deaver

You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn't the streets of Laredo. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Stanton clawed his way to the bedside table and managed to grab his knife. He jabbed it into Rhyme. Once, twice. But the only places he could reach were the criminalist's legs and arms. It's pain that incapacitates and pain was one thing to which Lincoln Rhyme was immune. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of it. I really wish he had finished his thought.) ~ Jeffery Deaver

The public service can continue to function regardless of its performance because it does not have to satisfy customers or produce a profit. ~ Anthea Jeffery

Graceful has never been a word you immediately pinned to my physical prowess; a flailing, tumbling human version of Jenga was a tad closer to accuracy. ~ Jeffery Self

He is a warden for Hells Prison. A politician shoved in the guise of a devil. He doesn't care about the Lost Souls he steals with his promises of illusion. He just wants numbers like the republicans want votes. He lives with the other Fallen and Demons in a place made especially for their kind ... The city of Sin itself. Las Vegas, Nevada.
They call it Wanton.
I call it hell. It's certainly hot enough.-Lilith ~ Ashley Jeffery

I pull on her tether all the time but it won't sink in. I have a feeling I'm using too much magic. I can't hold so many under my control and pull them in deep. Dean is the only one I have fully immersed. I am the puppet master. I am the only player on the board.
Pacey doesn't even know that the game has begun.-Lilith ~ Ashley Jeffery

What'd he do? Your stepfather? ~ Jeffery Deaver

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Someone severed the link between my brain and my fingers. ~ Jason Jeffery

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone... ~ Jeffery Deaver

My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up before approaching an editor. The best introduction to an editor is your own written work, published or not. I traveled across Siberia on my own money before ever approaching an editor; I wrote my first book, Siberian Dawn, without knowing a single editor, with no idea of how to get it published. I had to risk my life on the Congo before selling my first magazine story. If the rebel spirit dwells within you, you won't wait for an invitation, you'll invade and take no hostages. ~ Jeffery Taylor

Always thinking. This was one of the reasons he loved her. ~ Jeffery Deaver

didn't seem to be the nickname sort. Beautiful people rarely were. 'Let's ~ Jeffery Deaver

The greatest single threat to an investigator is unfamiliarity with his environment. ~ Jeffery Deaver

You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you full permission to hurl yourself off stuff. ~ Cynthia Hand

Time transcends morality ~ Jeffery Deaver

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. ~ Jeffery Deaver

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it. ~ Jeffery Deaver

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract. ~ Jeffery Deaver

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Somebody you busted?" Amanda asked matter-of-factly. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Chickens are true creatures of zen - they live only and absolutely for the moment. Their actions one particular second will not necessarily have any influence or bearing on their actions in the next second, nor are they necessarily influenced by their actions of the prior second. Chicken thoughts arrive in their tiny mad little minds like flashes of a strobe light, each light being an action, each flashing with the brilliance of a not very brilliant thing. Each action utterly random. The complete randomness of chaos. Chickens are notorious escape artists, not due to their ability to devise cunning plans as they huddle together in their coop beneath a bare light bulb, scratching out complex diagrams in the dirt, but simply out of sheet unpredictability. They are the pachinko balls of the animal kingdom, effecting their escapes through the simple device of, say, turning left for no particular reason. ~ Jeffery Russell

With time and perspective we recognize that such problems in life do come for a purpose, if only to allow the one who faces such despair to be convinced that he really does need divine strength beyond himself, that she really does need the offer of heaven's hand. Those who feel no need for mercy usually never seek it and almost never bestow it. Those who have never had a heartache or a weakness or felt lonely or forsaken never have had to cry unto heaven for relief of such personal pain. Surely it is better to find the goodness of God and the grace of Christ, even at the price of despair, than to risk living our lives in a moral or material complacency that has never felt any need for faith or forgiveness, any need for redemption or relief. ~ Jeffery R. Holland

They look like wounds, not tattoos. ~ Jeffery Deaver

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book. ~ Jeffery Deaver