Stone Cold Heart Quotes

“She brings her hands together on her lap, settling in for another lesson. “Most people go through what we refer to as ‘the seven levels of anger’—stress, anxiety, agitation, irritation, frustration, anger, rage. And at the lower end of that scale, a measure of self-control can usually be applied, which means the igniting issue often gets solved. The problem is, narcissists don’t go through the seven levels like most people. The tiniest slight sends them straight to the top of the scale. To a narcissist, rage is a perfectly appropriate response to their ego being threatened, because channeling that rage restores their feelings of superiority.”
― Caz Frear, Stone Cold Heart

“Hello,” she says, offering a quick smile. “You mention in one report that Joseph Madden’s work colleagues assumed his daughter to be his girlfriend, and that he didn’t do anything to dissuade them of this notion.” Emily nods. “Yep, that’s right.” “I’m going to guess that his daughter is highly attractive. Conventionally attractive.” I’ve got this. “Tall, blond, legs up to my shoulders. Model material.” “I thought as much. That’s why he played along with his colleagues’ assumptions, then. A young, conventionally stunning woman enhances his self-image. Admitting she’s his daughter means admitting she didn’t choose him, so it suits him far more—it feeds his False Self—if people think this young, tall, hot blond singled him out. It’s distasteful but perfectly logical when you consider his psyche.” Renée’s troubled.”
― Caz Frear, Stone Cold Heart

“That’s the east coast, Einstein. She said South Australia.” I correct him even though I haven’t a clue what constitutes the south. I dropped geography in favor of Latin at school. AURIBUS TENEO LUPUM.”
― Caz Frear, Stone Cold Heart

“To “hold a wolf by the ear.” An unsustainable situation in which doing nothing and doing something are equally risky.”
― Caz Frear, Stone Cold Heart

“Not so long ago it was the blood that floored me: the wounds, the mess, the indignity of picking over someone’s body when you can still smell their perfume, but increasingly now it’s the victim’s stuff that really stings. Their tickets and trinkets and clothes strewn across the floor. After all, it’s their stuff that holds the essence of who they were and what they loved. Their body, by the time we’re acquainted with it, just holds their organs.”
― Caz Frear, Stone Cold Heart

“I don’t suppose there’s any point in ordering you to go home?” she says, turning back to me. “I’ll only find you hiding out in the loos with a stack of witness statements.” Once. I did that once.”
― Caz Frear, Stone Cold Heart

“Upstairs. That mythical land where decisions are made, budgets are slashed, and balls of shit are prepared to be rolled downhill.”
― Caz Frear, Stone Cold Heart

“and for all that she knows jack shit about her husband. Joseph”
― Caz Frear, Stone Cold Heart