Cathy

“On NCIS or White Collar, I’d forcefully persuade a reluctant judge to issue a search warrant and then persuade my equally reluctant boss to give me access to a portable X-ray machine, and then I’d find Sebastian’s body and make an arrest—after a near-death escape from Nabiyev, whom I’d overpower despite his bigger size and more massive gun power. I wished I were a TV detective.”
― Sara Paretsky, Brush Back

“When you're struggling to survive, no one gets to label you a coward, not even you yourself in your private thoughts.”
― Sara Paretsky, Brush Back

“Ship,” he said absently. “A boat is something you haul aboard a ship.”
― Sara Paretsky, Deadlock

“The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.”
― Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas