Until Proven Guilty Quotes

“Taken out of context and given a forty-degree twist, you can use the Bible to justify almost anything.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“Like an old snakebit hound wanting his own cave under a house, I wanted to go home to lick my wounds.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“Suicide is something that hangs around forever, dropping load after load of guilt on the living.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“I've had too much money to be able to tell who my friends are...”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“used Brylcreem.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“she said, petulantly.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“the bus.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“the pounding in my head.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“Although the water isn’t more than five blocks from where I live, I seldom smell the ocean.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“about Michael Brodie,”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“I was doing what I had to do, what was inevitable. It was too painful to do it consciously, so I did it like a sleepwalker. It was like that last night with my mother, wanting her to die and not wanting her to die, wishing her suffering over yet not wanting to lose her.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“Cole blustered out of the lobby after us. “I want to know what’s going on. Two innocent people have been slaughtered in cold blood. You owe the people of Seattle an explanation.” I turned on him. “I owe the people of Seattle a full day’s work for a full day’s pay. I don’t owe you a fucking thing.” The other cop heard this exchange with a poorly concealed grin. “If he gives you any trouble, lock him up,” I said as I stalked away.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“I don’t think Carstogi really grasped that the only thing between him and a first-degree murder charge was a prostitute whose name was Gloria, most assuredly not the name her mommy gave her. He couldn’t remember her address, and the description he gave us would have fit half the females in the U.S. Average height, kind of light brown hair, lightish eyes, slim. Carstogi’s life was hanging by a slender thread.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“Brodie turned on me. “Get out,” he snarled. “You’ve no right to bring an infidel into a place of worship.” “She’s his wife,” I said. “She’s his widow!” he shot back.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“propping my eyes open with a cup of muscle-bound coffee from the McDonald’s at Third and Pine. The restaurant mirrors the flavor of the street, and Third Avenue in downtown Seattle is an absolute cross section of life in this country. I love it and hate it.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“I guess deep down, like most men, I wanted the woman I loved to be a virgin. An adept virgin.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“The easiest ones to solve are the hardest ones to understand, the husband and lovers and wives and parents who murder the people they ought to cherish instead of kill. The random killers, the ones who pick out a victim at a football game or a grocery store, are easier to comprehend and harder to catch. That's the problem with homicide.”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“followed”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty

“conversation on murder, child abuse, and”
― J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty