Indemnity Only Quotes

“Some men can only admire independent women at a distance.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only

“Now I've heard everyhing, I thought. Hired to find a person so her boyfriend would go to business school.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only

“Yeah, I’ve often said God must have loved mornings, he made so many of them.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only

“Presently he said, 'I've been falling in love with you, Vic, but you don't need me.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only

“You know why Polish jokes are so short?...So the Germans can remember them.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only

“You know me, Bobby--I have an instinct for crime. Where evil flourishes, there I will be, on my self-appointed mission to stamp it out.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only

“You? You're no more a detective than I am a ballet dancer," he exclaimed.

"I'd like to see you in tights and a tutu.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only

“The boy had clearly been dead for some time--the police could wait another few more minutes for him.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only

“I could hear her [Vic's Italian mother] saying, "Yes, Vic, you are pretty -- but pretty is no good. Any girl can be pretty -- but to take care of yourself you must have brains. And you must have a job, a profession. You must work.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only

“When is thirty is a fond memory, the more days that pass without exercise the worse you feel going back to it. Then too, I'm undisciplined in a way that makes it easier to exercise than to diet, and the running helps keep my weight down.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only

“But then, did I look like a detective? Come to think of it, most people don't try to guess what women do for a living by the way they look - but they are usually astounded to find out what I do.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only