Bad To The Bones Quotes

“the smile slipping off his face like birdshit off a windshield”
― James Harper, Bad To The Bones

“ideas about what might have happened,”
― James Harper, Bad To The Bones

“I’m calling the police right now.’ He turned back towards the office, paused again when Evan didn’t move. ‘You hear me?’ Evan heard him, he wasn’t deaf. Wet and cold, feeling slimy, but not deaf. It was now or never. He hated this.”
― James Harper, Bad To The Bones

“talk to”
― James Harper, Bad To The Bones

“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. Do you know who said that?’ ‘No.’ It sounded”
― James Harper, Bad To The Bones

“hell”
― James Harper, Bad To The Bones

“that we found your business card,’ Ryder continued. He made business card sound dirty too, as if it was one of the ones you saw pinned up in public phone booths”
― James Harper, Bad To The Bones

“distressed, poor thing, she didn’t think to go into his study and remove the evidence that pointed to her starring role in this sorry little tale.’ Evan sat there completely dumbfounded, unable to think clearly, although one thought”
― James Harper, Bad To The Bones

“More than a few as well by the look—and smell—of things.’ Evan let out a long, weary breath at the relentless jibes. His head was pounding,”
― James Harper, Bad To The Bones

“him off a couple of blocks away so his mother wouldn’t find out. Which also meant nobody else really knew it was going on.’ ‘Did he have an alibi?’ ‘Nothing we were able to check. He said he went for a drive that afternoon because it was such a beautiful day. He showed us a receipt for gas, but”
― James Harper, Bad To The Bones