Dead Reckoning Quotes

“The convoluted rationalizations and justifications – the lies and alibis people created to protect themselves from their fears, fears which seldom had any basis in reality – always led to darker holes than the ones they were conjured to avoid.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Dead Reckoning

“It wasn’t so much that he wanted to be with people. It just made him feel less alone to be among them.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Dead Reckoning

“I think we should go ahead and round up any telemarketers we come across. Lock ‘em up for general malfeasance.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Dead Reckoning

“The biggest lie was about time – it can wait, we’ll sort it out when life slows down a bit. But life doesn’t slow down, ever. Life is a chunk of iron hurtling through space at ten times the speed of sound, accelerating as it encounters a gravitational pull and accelerating still more until it hits the atmosphere and burns away to nothing. Or slams into the skin of the planet, erupting in a torrent of dust that clouds the atmosphere and kills off all the damned dinosaurs. It was too humid and Evan was too tired to fall down a rabbit hole of doubt and self-recrimination.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Dead Reckoning

“Evan made a mental note to not run out here some Friday night to check it out.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Dead Reckoning

“An initial survey of a murder scene was as much about collecting questions as it was about collecting evidence.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Dead Reckoning