The Skin Collector Quotes

“The pain, you know. It’s one hell of a way to die.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals—humanised animals—triumphs of vivisection.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“I’m really not the cold fish everyone thinks I am.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“eager’ and ‘anxious’ aren’t the same, or how ‘disinterested’ doesn’t mean ‘uninterested.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“Natural selection applies to criminal activity, as well as to newts and simians.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“Knuckle time” referred to those moments when you have to go up against your worst fears.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“Where did phobias come from? Sachs wondered. Some childhood trauma, some genetic imprinting”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“Always thinking. This was one of the reasons he loved her.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“RIP, Rest in Peace, though what’s the point of that? What else’re the dead going to be doing? It’s a better message than Good Luck, don’t you think?”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“he’d never been a people person. He was a science person. A mind person.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“severe”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“We’re defined and enlivened by what opposes us.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“Fort”Y”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“The workbench was filled with glassware, books, syringes, tattooing machine parts, plastic bags, tools. Dozens of books on toxins and thousands of downloaded Internet documents,”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“And if it took awhile, that means she was in pain for a long time.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“They look like wounds, not tattoos.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“We’re defined and enlivened by what opposes us. And when the Watchmaker died, Lincoln Rhyme died a bit too.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“What would it be like to tattoo a living, beating heart? Could it be done?”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector

“of your bed as you slept. Sachs had brought Braden Alexander’s clothing too. Cooper”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Skin Collector