The Bitter Season Quotes

“She couldn’t concentrate enough to lose herself in a book—her lifelong method of escape.”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“Her immediate, instinctive response was to distract herself with physical pain. She wanted to go to the kitchen and get a knife and cut herself to relieve the pressure and clear her mind.”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“People who had never experienced suicidal thoughts didn’t understand the seductiveness, the insidiousness of those thoughts.”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“You listen to me, you fucking dinosaur,” Nikki said, keeping her voice low. “I’ve had worse from better than you. So don’t think for a minute that you can intimidate me. You can take your last-century misogynist bullshit attitude and stick it up your ass. And if you want to make this a fight, metaphorically or otherwise, you’d better know, I will break you in two and beat the shit out of both ends. Stay out of my case.”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“never underestimate the power of the American public to utterly shock and disappoint you.”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“MISOGYNISTIC PRICK,” Nikki muttered as she descended Nilsen’s front steps. “That’s redundant,” Seley pointed out. “For emphasis,” Nikki said”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“You can go anywhere in a book. Be anyone. And life has to make sense in a book. Real life doesn't have to make sense. In real life good people can turn out to be bad people, and bad people can get away with murder...and worse. I'll take a good book over that any day.”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“Never judge a family by their address or bank account. And never underestimate the power of the American public to utterly shock and disappoint you.”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“Don't puke on my scene, ninja boy.”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“Maybe we could put this off until I do something more impressive than puke on a suspect who shit all over the interview room.

We could, but seriously, how are you going to top that?”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“He hated this time of year. Every day was shorter than the last. Night began to fall in late afternoon. Winter could arrive on any given day and stay until April. They had had an ice storm on Halloween and a blizzard on Veterans Day, followed by three days of rain that had caused flash flooding in low-lying areas. The odd day of stunning, electric blue skies and a paltry few lingering fall colors couldn’t make up for the stretches of bleak gray or the damp cold that knifed to the bone.”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season

“nose and a straight brow”
― Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season