Julie

“At the hospital. You’ve told me you need people with a motive to have killed Markham, but you don’t know of anyone else except your client, so all right, let’s assume for the moment that it’s not him, although that continues to make me uncomfortable as hell, except still, what you need, even beyond motive, is presence, by which I mean that whoever it was had to be there and that brings us back around full circle.” “I’ll give you a dollar if you can diagram that last sentence for me.”
― John Lescroart, The Oath

“Her notebook, on the table, contained neither rhymes nor reason but held, between the worn pages, the lump in the throat.”
― Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind

“I’m a simple man,” Jack said clearly, Lydia’s hands in his, his eyes never leaving hers. “I like meaningless sex, McDonald’s, fart jokes, Dumb and Dumber, and Top Forty hits I’ll forget a week after they drop off the charts. I cuss like a sailor and I’m an uncultured swine. I don’t slow down, a Tigger in an Eeyore world. But somehow … Somehow, I met—”
― Moriah Jovan, Black Jack

“WPC Buchan might not know much about art, but she knew what gave her the fucking willies, and these things took the hairy biscuit.”
― Stuart MacBride, Dying Light