Dead to Rights Quotes

“heavyset woman”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“Only by diminishing others could she maintain her own fragile self-worth.”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“to sell my first batch of Girl Scout”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“spaghetti westerns”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“didn’t seem like much of a punishment for the taking of a human life.”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“I’m fine.” “You don’t look fine,” Eva Lou said. “You’re so pale that you look as though you might keel right over. You must be working too hard.” “Probably,” Joanna agreed. “Well, cut it out,” Eva Lou said severely. “It’s tempting to try to be everything to all people, but you can’t keep it up forever. It’s too hard on you. You forget to stop and smell the roses. As you know, when those roses are gone, they’re gone forever.”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“Joanna looked at Frank and grinned. “Well,” she said. “I’m two for two. Aren’t you going to stomp out and slam the door shut as well?” “I don’t think so,” he said. “Whatever the provocation, I think it’s bad form to slam doors until after everyone in the office has had a chance to finish at least one cup of coffee.”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“In that room, littered with half-filled packing boxes, they were simply two women comparing the jagged pieces of their broken hearts.”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“Parenting, Joanna thought to herself, sure as hell isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Aloud she said to her daughter, “I didn’t mean that—the alone part. All I’m saying is that there are already too many chores…”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“Those insights all washed over Joanna in a series of crushing waves. When the flood ebbed, it left behind, like debris deposited on a sandy shore, an adult understanding not only of both of Joanna’s parents but of herself as well.”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“No question.” Ernie Carpenter answered without the slightest hesitation. “We’ve got him dead to rights on this one. You can count on it, Sheriff Brady.”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“time the feather had become quite bedraggled.”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“Sort of like sticks and stones can”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights

“lenses of his wire-rimmed glasses.”
― J.A. Jance, Dead To Rights