The Murderer's Daughter Quotes

“Friendly, yes. Friend, never.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“In matters of healing, the body initiates and the mind follows.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“Literally and figuratively. Balance is important to you”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“Tonight, the choice was obvious.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“That was the thing about knowing people’s secrets: It could make them not like you.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“Right from the start, she felt at home with them. They sensed it, too, and soon, following her pattern, she was treating twice, then three times as many patients as anyone else at the hospital. More important, she was getting results, with patients and families increasingly requesting her as their therapist. The V.A. staff took notice, happy to have someone carry the elephant’s load.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“Okay?” “Okay.” “Really,” said Nancy. “Everything’s going to work out okay.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“Thinking, as she had a thousand times: Special needs, she’s like the others, gets more money for it. Followed by the question that bothered her: What’s my special need? Bobby snorted and sputtered and coughed and Ramona rushed over and slapped his back softly until he stopped. Amber started to cry and Ramona said, “One moment, darling.” Grace had wondered for a while about what made Bobby weak and have trouble breathing but knew better than to ask Ramona about something that wasn’t her business. Instead, she snuck”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“That placed her inches from a yawning abyss.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“Feeling deeply is a virtue, Bev. It allows life to take on meaning and at some point your joy will be even greater than if you’d simply drifted with the currents.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“Overweening arrogance and why not? No one had told him no for a very long time.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“Because like all psychopaths he was grandiose, and convinced of his own personal magnetism, assumed worship on the part of others.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“she’d heard he was some sort of karate honcho, occasionally”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“never did anything like that. I never told him.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“He sat down and said, “Thank you.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“Home was where the heart was and Grace’s heart was a hunk of muscle that worked just fine on its own.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter

“Harvard, entry to the clubs was by invitation only”
― Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter