Fire and Ice Quotes

“By the way, I’m not exactly wild about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, and my jaundiced opinion has nothing to do with the fact that it’s now a toll bridge. My dislike goes all the way back to the time when I was a little kid growing up in Seattle. I was born only a few short years after the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, otherwise known as Galloping Gertie, crashed into the drink. The bridge had been open for only a few months when it started swaying uncontrollably and then collapsed during a fierce windstorm during the winter of 1940. It took ten years to build a replacement. When that one opened in 1950, newsreels in theaters replayed the flapping demise of Galloping Gertie over and over. For me, seeing that film footage left a lasting impression.”
― J.A. Jance, Fire And Ice

“When someone dies, the people who are left behind assume that they’re somehow the root cause—that the tragedy happened because of something they did or didn’t do at some critical juncture.”
― J.A. Jance, Fire And Ice

“Standing in on autopsies is tough, but it’s part of my job. Bereaved family members go to funerals. They remember the dearly departed in eulogies and they start the process of saying good-bye. For homicide cops, autopsies are a way of saying hello. What the M.E. uncovers in an autopsy is usually a starting point. By learning everything we can about the victims at the moment of death, we begin trying to find out what happened to them and why. And with unidentified victims, it’s even more basic than that. Before we can find out who killed them, we have to know who they are. And in this case, once we established the victim’s identity, we needed to ascertain if her death was related to the others we were investigating.”
― J.A. Jance, Fire And Ice

“When it comes to kids, sometimes you just can’t win.”
― J.A. Jance, Fire And Ice

“I’ve heard that kids learn new languages faster than older people can. Tomas”
― J.A. Jance, Fire And Ice

“Immigration might”
― J.A. Jance, Fire And Ice

“Don’t leave home without taking some Aleve.”
― J.A. Jance, Fire And Ice

“Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook,” but”
― J.A. Jance, Fire And Ice