Grave Secret Quotes

“Oh, no, I love going into a pen of lions wearing a sign that says Edible Lamb.”
-- Manfred”
― Charlaine Harris, Grave Secret

“Manfred,” I began, exasperated, “I just don’t know what to do with you.”
“I have some very good ideas,” he said. He waggled his eyebrows.
He was making it funny, but he was serious. I never doubted that at my slightest response, Manfred would be booking us into the nearest hotel as fast as he could whip out his wallet.”
― Charlaine Harris, Grave Secret

“Her (Beverly Powers) face was round and sweet, but her eyes were another matter. Whatever sport she’d played, this woman had been a ferocious competitor.
I was profoundly glad I hadn’t been having an affair with her husband.”
― Charlaine Harris, Grave Secret

“I shook off his overwhelming misery. I’ve had practice. Pity him? He’d gotten to choose. If I pitied everyone I met who’d crossed over, I’d be weeping continuously.”
― Charlaine Harris, Grave Secret

“He is,” I said. “Looks more like your boyfriend.” Drexell sniggered. “I’m her stepbrother and her boyfriend,”
― Charlaine Harris, Grave Secret

“I still thought of him as my brother, though I was trying to catch myself when I called him that out loud. We had a much different relationship, now.”
― Charlaine Harris, Grave Secret

“My brother was leaning against our car, and he wasn’t going to stir.”
― Charlaine Harris, Grave Secret

“The murder of a child was the worst of crimes, in my book, the absolute rock bottom of evil.”
― Charlaine Harris, Grave Secret