Debra Webb > Quotes

“When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.”
― Debra Webb, Going to the Chapel

“I'm human. The single most overused excuse on the planet for doing the absolute wrong thing.”
― Debra Webb, DIRTY

“I'm a woman. Forty-five in female years (which is about a hundred and thirty in male years - bastards).”
― Debra Webb, DIRTY

“As far as evil goes”—she shrugged one shoulder—“I’ve spent a dozen years studying the subject and there’s one thing I know for sure.” Her expression grew distant, breakable somehow. She blinked and seemed to push whatever had distracted her aside. “If you want to know what evil looks like, look in the mirror.” She leaned down, flattened her hands on the table once more, and went face-to-face with Wells. “Any one of us is capable of evil, Detective. We all have a line. It’s not crossing it that separates us from the Ed Geins and Charles Mansons of the world.”
― Debra Webb, Obsession

“Men got better with age, like wine. Women, on the other hand, were like cheese- aged was good to a degree, then came the mold and the inevitable casting aside.”
― Debra Webb, DIRTY

“What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve . . . —Unknown”
― Debra Webb, Trust No One

“Bring your own body.”
― Debra Webb, The Darkness We Hide

“Humans were creatures of habit. Habits weren’t abruptly changed without some sort of prompt.”
― Debra Webb, The Last Lie Told

“Secrets rarely stay hidden forever.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“It was a strategy as old as time. Make people desperate enough and they obeyed.”
― Debra Webb, Bone Deep

“life is not something you can plan down to the moment. It happens. You try your best to be prepared for whatever life brings, but the one thing you can’t do as long as you’re breathing is stop it from happening.”
― Debra Webb, Vile

“There were two things a girl learned to do simultaneously at a very young age: knee a guy in the crotch and scream at the top of her lungs.”
― Debra Webb, DIRTY

“Wasn’t that the way of things now? Everybody thought they were better at policing than cops. Cops were suddenly the enemy.”
― Debra Webb, Gone Too Far

“The past shouldn’t rule the present.”
― Debra Webb, Gone Too Far

“She never bought jackets without sufficient pockets because she hated carrying handbags or anything else on the job that set her apart from the male detectives.”
― Debra Webb, Trust No One

“Coming back forced her to acknowledge what she wanted to pretend away. Loss and pain and terrible secrets.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“There was nothing more satisfying than taking all the jumbled pieces and putting them together one by one to recreate the picture—the story—of the crime in question.”
― Debra Webb, The Nature of Secrets

“you?”
― Debra Webb, Trust No One

“the”
― Debra Webb, Trust No One

“But her mama would always smile and say Bent was a good man, he just needed someone to show him how to be as good as he really was.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“crusted”
― Debra Webb, Disappearance in Dread Hollow: A Child in Jeopardy Suspense Romance

“family likely heard about the tragedy and wanted to help.”
― Debra Webb, Revenge

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth. —Vladimir Lenin”
― Debra Webb, The Last Lie Told

“things you do are the things you do. Nothing can change the facts. Others might lie or distort those things, but they never go away. Your choices, your actions are forever. You leave a footprint that can be followed if someone is determined to look closely enough.”
― Debra Webb, The Last Lie Told

“Life was quite often like business. Even when your journey veered off-track, you simply recalculated and adjusted your trajectory”
― Debra Webb, The Nature of Secrets

“person who understands the relevance of this place”
― Debra Webb, Trust No One

“Leaving was the one good, selfless thing he did in those days. Leaving gave Vera the opportunity to achieve all the things she had spoken about so enthusiastically. She had big dreams, and he hadn’t wanted to stand in her way.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“Unpleasant things are always more tolerable after a good drink.”
― Debra Webb, The Last Lie Told

“press”
― Debra Webb, Power

“The longer they were kept, the bigger and darker they grew.”
― Debra Webb, The Nature of Secrets