Tombstone Courage Quotes

“From out of her past, she could almost hear D. H. Lathrop’s New Mexican drawl telling Joanna and her mother, “Newspaper reporters are just like rattlesnakes. You’re better off keeping them out in the open where you can see what they’re doing.” Live and learn, Joanna told herself, and don’t make the same mistake twice.”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“In order to survive in the harsh desert climate, ocotillos spend most of the year looking parched and barren. But whenever the shallow roots are blessed with rain, short-lived leaves appear on seemingly dead branches. New crops of leaves can come and go several times in the course of a single year. Why couldn’t people be more like ocotillos? Joanna wondered, envying the hardy desert candlewood its natural resilience. Humans didn’t necessarily have that same kind of toughness, the same ability to withstand and recover from terrible dry spells.”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“What’s wrong with her?” Joanna asked. “What isn’t wrong with her is probably a better question,” Amy Baxter said. “It’s just what I was afraid of. Being here has been way too hard on her. You’re looking at a textbook case. Start with a dash of incest, add in a mostly dysfunctional family, stir in some recreational drug use and a fistful of self-loathing, and you end up with a very troubled woman.”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“Gender is not the problem.”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“generations of five-number dialing, telephone users now had to use all seven numbers to make a local call,”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“Can’t you see those cameras are running?”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“Casa Vieja,”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“as a newly single parent or”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“newly made orphan.”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“Joanna read Officer Down all the way through. It was an awful book. An appalling book. One at a time, it listed and gave horrifying examples of the ten fatal errors police officers make.”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“At the first sign of weakness, he’d be all over her like flies on crap.”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“Eva Lou Brady shook her head. “No, Joanna, mothers don’t give up,” she said. “Haven’t you figured that out yet? No matter what, we never, ever, quite give up.”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage

“From high school on, this building with its single, three-office suite was the only workplace she had ever known, and Milo Davis had been her only boss. If she won the election, all that would change. Joanna felt like a reluctant and uncertain fledgling about to be shoved from the nest, regardless of whether or not she could fly. And yet she did want to win, didn’t she?”
― J.A. Jance, Tombstone Courage