Jeffery Deaver > Quotes

“She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bodies Left Behind

“Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“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, The Bone Collector

“She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Roadside Crosses

“You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.”
― Jeffery Deaver

“Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone...”
― Jeffery Deaver, Carte Blanche