Lady Cop Makes Trouble Quotes

“I’d always felt that one could read a woman’s discontent in the amount of embroidery in her sitting room. It gave me a crowded and nervous feeling to sit among so much frantic stitchery.”
― Amy Stewart, Lady Cop Makes Trouble

“I would’ve never guessed that a life in law enforcement was mostly spent waiting, that catching criminals requires not just clever thinking and a quick step, but a willingness to stand still while the rest of the world moves about, and that what was required was not strength or grit but the ability to get into place and stay there, and to ignore the desperate rising certainty that something more urgent might be happening, somewhere, and that if only one could leave one’s post and tear down the street in pursuit, some kind of prey would surely leap up and allow itself to be caught.”
― Amy Stewart, Lady Cop Makes Trouble

“It looked like the kind of place where people were shot over the rent money.”
― Amy Stewart, Lady Cop Makes Trouble

“When I was younger," she said slowly, "I always hoped you were hiding some horrid secret. You were too nice." She sniffed. "You have no idea how annoying it is that your horrid secret is a heart complaint, and not, for instance, a double murder committed by moonlight.”
― Amy Stewart, Lady Cop Makes Trouble

“Norma’s frown had become so deeply etched in her face over the years that it took a great deal of effort to reverse its direction, but I thought I saw some change come over her. There was a hint of interest in her eyes. She”
― Amy Stewart, Lady Cop Makes Trouble