Shadow Woman Quotes

“she sprayed the inside of the car with the fire extinguisher and tossed it on the floor in the back seat, left the keys in the ignition, and walked away. “What was that for?” asked Pete. “The spray is just carbon dioxide. It’ll be gone in a little while, but so will the fingerprints. If somebody traces the plates, they’ll have a problem because the car’s not registered in Colorado. It might buy us some time to make them trace it in other states.”
― Thomas Perry, Shadow Woman

“Marriages are fragile. When you boil off all the nonsense, what they amount to is a promise.”
― Thomas Perry, Shadow Woman

“It often seemed to Jake that wisdom had settled on his own head like a wreath from heaven some time around age sixty, after it was too late to do him much good and was more of an irritation than a pleasure.”
― Thomas Perry, Shadow Woman

“Women had a way of dancing with the man who asked, and a lot of the natural-selection business that determined who was first in line, or even who considered himself worthy, got settled among the men themselves.”
― Thomas Perry, Shadow Woman

“There was no such thing as a prayer of supplication in the old religion, only ways of giving thanks.”
― Thomas Perry, Shadow Woman