The Bone Collector Quotes

“Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own.” The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. —ARISTOTLE”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“If they were expected,” she shot back, “then they wouldn’t be breakthroughs, now would they?”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of it. I really wish he had finished his thought.)”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“WHEN YOU MOVE THEY CAN’T GETCHA ‘A”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“He believed there was nothing essentially unAmerican about greed or lust—hey, those qualities were encouraged everywhere from Wall Street to Capitol Hill.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“If you’re going to get by in life, you’re going to have to learn to give up the dead.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“He didn't want to die on Monday. It seemed common.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“This guy’s a pussy, she thought. I know that ’cause he’s saying everything I want to.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“The office, high above downtown Manhattan, looked out over Jersey. The crap in the air made the sunset absolutely beautiful.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“Already sweating though it was just nine in the morning, Amelia Sachs pushed through a stand of tall grass. She was walking the strip search—what the Crime Scene people called it—an S-shaped pattern. Nothing. She bent her head to the speaker/mike pinned to her navy-blue uniform blouse.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“didn’t seem to be the nickname sort. Beautiful people rarely were. ‘Let’s”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“Rhyme”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“You bet they did. Dellray was there. You should've seen him. He ordered every other case put on hold and said if metallurgy report wasn't in your hands ASAP there'd be one mean mother——you get the picture——reaming their——you get the rest of the picture.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“Stanton clawed his way to the bedside table and managed to grab his knife. He jabbed it into Rhyme. Once, twice. But the only places he could reach were the criminalist's legs and arms. It's pain that incapacitates and pain was one thing to which Lincoln Rhyme was immune.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector