Blood Test Quotes

“To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors--there are studies that show it--are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“Icy people often freeze themselves in order to hold in check a volcanic stew of disturbing and conflictual feelings. Emotional hibernation, if you will. Crack the ice and the stuff inside comes pouring out with all the discipline of molten lava.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“most precious thing in my life is us. Didn’t you once tell me that all the busy little things we do—career, achievement—are just trim around the edges? That what’s important is the intimacy we establish in our lifetime? I bought it. I really believe that.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“I’d long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors—there are studies that show it—are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“again. It had gotten colder, but no better.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“If the whole country ever got that industrious the Japanese wouldn’t stand a chance.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test