Aaron Stander > Quotes

“Mike said they were gale force winds, which must mean strong. He grew up in the Upper Peninsula and said he’d never seen the bridge rocking like that. He told me the story of a woman who was driving over the bridge in wind like this when her little car went out of control and flipped over the side and fell down, down into the water.”
― Aaron Stander, Gales of November

“Mike said it was deer season.”
― Aaron Stander, Gales of November

“Affluence is always relative, depending on where you are on the food chain.”
― Aaron Stander, Shelf Ice

“After opening the doors to the engine compartment, they pulled the lead off the number three spark plug and attached it to the one there. They placed that in the bottom of the boat and poured in some gasoline. Wouldn’t need much, only takes a cup or two. And they might have used a lot more. Wouldn’t have taken long for fumes to fill the whole compartment. That would have been like having several sticks of dynamite waiting for a spark. Greg comes to get his boat. He doesn’t open and check the engine compartment for fumes. He just jumps in, hits the ignition. End of story.”
― Aaron Stander, Murder in the Merlot

“one of the great things about our country is that you get to believe or not believe in anything you want.”
― Aaron Stander, Shelf Ice

“then he collapsed backwards, head loose, body limp. The heavy, amber whiskey tumbler fell. Its bottom edge slammed into the thick, grass-mat flooring, bounced once, turned a”
― Aaron Stander, Summer People

“couple of weeks last year after she”
― Aaron Stander, Color Tour

“Get whatever help you need, get full photos, and have the place sealed off. Don’t move the body until I look things over. Where are you in University Gardens?”
― Aaron Stander, Medieval Murders

“Ma stood for a long moment and took in the panorama. Her gaze moving from left to right, she viewed the perimeter of the ice-covered plain. Three sides of the lake were bordered in marshland. The dusky skeletons of long dead pine trees angled helter-skelter at the verge of the marshes. Beyond, scrub forests of oak and maple in saturnine nakedness stood on the rolling terrain. A dark overcast added to the grimness of the tableau. Ma looked over the expanse of ice toward the old resort.”
― Aaron Stander, Cruelest Month

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro,”
― Aaron Stander, Shelf Ice

“But the instrument she picked up and insisted on playing was this beautiful little quarter-size violin, setup for the left hand. They tried to move her to a right-hand instrument, and she absolutely refused. So Jill and her mother reached a compromise of sorts. Jill would play the violin, which her mother desperately wanted her to do, but she would play on the left-hand instrument.”
― Aaron Stander, Death in a Summer Colony

“Two blocks away, in the shadows of the old state asylum—a large complex of yellow-brick Victorian buildings”
― Aaron Stander, Murder in the Merlot

“They went down to Paw Paw to get a couple of truckloads of grapes we bought for one of our non-estate wines.”
― Aaron Stander, Murder in the Merlot

“fictitiously.”
― Aaron Stander, Death in a Summer Colony

“The lights of my generation have almost all gone out.”
― Aaron Stander, Cruelest Month

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.”
― Aaron Stander, Deer Season

“Elkins sat and watched her go down the hall. He had always loved red hair. His first love, a girl in his third grade class, had red hair. And he had always liked white shorts on a shapely woman.”
― Aaron Stander, Medieval Murders

“blitz”
― Aaron Stander, Deer Season

“the packaging is more important than the content.”
― Aaron Stander, Summer People

“Hanna coarsely grated a chunk of Parmigiano Reggiano as Ray put the finishing touches on a pasta dish, a combination of oven-roasted parsnips, bacon, and heavy cream mixed with al dente farfalle.”
― Aaron Stander, Murder in the Merlot

“Even though I knew the whole thing was absolutely impossible, I really fell for him. But,” she smiled, “someone new will come along.”
― Aaron Stander, Medieval Murders

“after the eleven o’clock news. She cleared their bottles and glasses, wiped the bar and the counters. Then she locked the front door to prevent any more customers from coming in for a nightcap, not that there was much chance of that late on a stormy weeknight. She emptied the meager contents of the”
― Aaron Stander, Deer Season

“A derelict windmill stood at the top. The tower was covered with a thick layer of rust and most of the blades were missing, the remaining ones twisted and distorted. Just below it was the massive storage tank, steel bands on wood, now collapsing inward. Ma crossed the ridge and looked out at Lake Michigan.”
― Aaron Stander, Cruelest Month

“did for a bit. Now I can’t believe I ever used those things. Think”
― Aaron Stander, Cruelest Month

“the base of the hill he brought the vehicle to a crawl, then carefully turned onto a two-track and threaded his way through two fieldstone columns, an old wooden gate angling away from one”
― Aaron Stander, Murder in the Merlot

“The Boyds, Prescott and Dorothy.” Sue gave Ray a knowing look as she continued. “The Crescent Cove—Round Island Hunt Club, I guess they own it now.” Ray was familiar with the location: a gated and fenced enclave that held the largest tract of private land in the county.”
― Aaron Stander, Deer Season

“gold”
― Aaron Stander, Cruelest Month

“knock”
― Aaron Stander, Deer Season