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“Blood only flows in one direction.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

“Sometimes he talked silently to himself, repeating the same thoughts. How long has the persistent brother been eluding me? How long has he had an arrangement with my wife? Am I not the humiliated one? Trusting them both?”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

“Her firm belief was that things would be better in society if there was a periodic ‘social cleansingâ€� to eliminate those influences that are considered unsavory. She sounds like she’d be fun at parties,â€� the officer joked.”
― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

“Shuller was thankful they’d found sheets for those who had been killed, but just the knowing who was under the sheet ... well, he wasn’t sure if that was still a kindness or made it worse for the imagination.”
― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

“Oh yes, how terrible for you. Having to have a staff wait on you, having the world for yours to take due to being born into privilege and being so unbelievably bored at the prospect of living a life of leisure thanks to the genetic lottery you won that you threw it all away for a pursuit of a career that, quite frankly, is not your strong suit, shall we say. Yes. Poor little rich girl. Everything you have now, everything you had lost and walked away from, is of your doing. You just had to maintain a life of decorum. Sorry if the expectations of being proper were unattainable for you. I hadn’t expected that to be outside of your reach.”
― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

“Each time she glanced in his direction, she was struck with the fact that this measly slip of a man had had the power to destroy her husband’s career. Every bit of loathing she had for him was there on display for Willum to take in.”
― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

“Ma’am.â€� The officer was already tired of the haughtiness of Ms. Headstrom. “You specifically sought out this particular group of people, who all had a particular criterion of being in the press for unfavorable reasons. Is that correct?â€�
“Well, not all of them were for unfavorable reasons,� she tried to rationalize. “Some were associated with an unfavorable reason. It was a themed party. That was the theme. That was the only reason. Why else would I have brought them all to the house for a dinner?�
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― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

“In just about every other book I can think of, we're chasing on the heels of our heroes - the spies, the soldiers, the romantics, the adventurers. But we stand shoulder to shoulder with the detective.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders

“Each group seemed to be collected in front of two doors, each looking at the other, and no one looking at Mica. There was one person looking at Mica, but she was unaware that she was being watched.”
― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

“He didn’t need dinner slop to feed his body. He couldn’t recall ever being so filled up.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“The money felt scratchy, hard against his skin. He wished he had a nice, sensitive woman to share the party with. No one. Tears wet his eyes. He didn’t try to stop them.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“It appeared to be from behind us. We were all turned and listening to Barry as he was in the midst of a rant and had all our attentions. The gun shot seemed to come from the area of the foyer.”
― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

“And I’m a sheriff,â€� Shuller jumped in. Willum’s demeaner faltered for a moment. It was so minor that it could have been missed by most, but Shuller caught it. The ever-so-slight blanching at the mention of law. Shuller was able to perceive the slight discomfort which concerned him. It was not a good sign to Shuller when someone bristled at the idea he was a sheriff. It never boded well for the type of person he was dealing with if the fact he was a man of law was what made them act oddly.”
― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

“Intuition was just the brain processing information more quickly than one's consciousness could comprehend.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood

“Dig two graves, Fiona. One for your enemy... And one for yourself.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood

“We could sit around and talk if you'd like."
"Okay." She crossed her arms and tried to look casual. "So what's up?"
"Considering what you're wearing beneath that sheet, and what we just heard in the hallway, you might want to rephrase that particular statement.”
― Jill Shalvis, Get a Clue

“She wished now she'd brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch.”
― Jill Shalvis, Get a Clue

“He held up his hand, and in it was...
Oh, God.
The neon-pink vibrator, glowing in the dark now. It was following her, stalking her, all the way down the yellow brick road to hell.”
― Jill Shalvis, Get a Clue

“Memories make for powerful ghosts..." I whispered.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood

“Did you love me?" It was a pathetic question asked in a pathetic whisper.

"Oh, Fiona," The lips he pressed against my temple were anything but ecumenical. His hand on my back drifted to my waist. "My feelings for you cannot be reduced to a single word. You are my only temptation.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Business of Blood

“If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?”
― Jill Shalvis, Get a Clue

“No groom.
No electricity.
Stuck in a house with a naked guy.
Screwed.”
― Jill Shalvis, Get a Clue

“...Niall carrying it around for motivation; a little hope that he would get his brother out of jail and they'd take off for down under.
Instead, he was really down under.”
― Carlene O'Connor, Murder in an Irish Village

“He slept fitfully that night, and between his restless moments he dreamed about seaweed—great curtains of seaweed undulating with the motion of the waves. Then it became a head of green hair swirling in the dirty brown water.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun , The Cat Who Saw Red