Kills Well with Others Quotes

“It’s not stupidity.” I explained the basic psychology. “It’s optimism. Like any other scam, we’re taking advantage of his longing for something. Wolfgang Praetorius wants to sing for the Met. We dangled the possibility in front of him, and he snapped at the bait. He’s willing to overlook anything suspicious because his ambition outweighs his sense of self-preservation.” “It happens all the time,” Helen told Akiko. “People look beyond red flags waving right in front of their faces because they want something so desperately that they will explain away anything that might endanger that.” “You just described two of my marriages,” Natalie said. “Everybody sees what they want,” Mary Alice said quietly.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Kills Well with Others

“This is where she is often found at parties, dispensing food or beverages since it gives her a chance to see and be seen, to talk to everyone, to preside.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Kills Well with Others

“A uniform, Constance reminded them during their initial briefing, purchases acceptance, and—if one is lucky—invisibility. People who wear uniforms for a living are forgettable and largely anonymous, two qualities essential in our work. And they are underestimated. Use that to your advantage.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Kills Well with Others

“Do not grieve for the life you have not chosen. Very many people can reproduce, and they quite frequently do. We have different gifts and we are called to a different path. The world needs us, Miss Webster, to remove what stands between good and decent people and chaos. We are necessary monsters.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Kills Well with Others

“The possible future stretches out before her like a blank map, and the very emptiness of it is terrifying.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Kills Well with Others

“That is a problem for later,”
― Deanna Raybourn, Kills Well with Others

“The basic rules that apply to the rest of the world—thou shalt not kill, for starters—don’t matter to them. They do as they please, and they don’t care about the carnage they leave behind.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Kills Well with Others

“Being underestimated is your superpower.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Kills Well with Others

“Deanna”
― Deanna Raybourn, Kills Well with Others