Ashes to Ashes Quotes

“I liked my house. I liked my stuff. I had to start over once. I don't want to have to do it again. But life says, ‘Tough bounce,' and what are my options? Take it on the chin and keep marching.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“Man enters into the ethical world through fear and not through love.”—Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“Even if the police find the tape, even if they are able to lift a fingerprint from it, they won't find him. His prints are in no criminal database.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“I was surprised to see him at the meeting tonight. He's been keeping such a low profile.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“Liska watched him walk away, wondering. From a distance Vanlees looked like a city cop in his blue-over-black uniform.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“don't. The response was automatic—and just as automatically unspoken. He didn't cope. He never had. He just shoveled it all into the big dark pit inside him and hoped to hell the pit didn't overflow.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“one thing she had learned in life, it was that you could escape circumstance, but you could never escape who you were. Your personal truth was a shadow: There was no denying it, no changing it, and no getting rid of”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“plenty of people in law enforcement and social work who came from that same set of circumstances, people who had come to that same fork in the road and turned one way instead of the other.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“Bondurant's explosion was sudden, strong, surprising "My God, if I'd thought there was anything wrong, if I'd thought something was going to happen, don't you think I would have stopped her from leaving? Don't you think I would have kept her here?"

"I'm sure you would have," Quinn said softly, the voice of compassion and reassurance, emotions he had stopped giving out in full measure long ago because it took too much from him and there was no one around to help him refill the well.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“It never failed to amaze her, the sudden sharpness of that pain as it stabbed through the cotton batting of time. A part of her wished fervently it would dull, and another part of her hoped that it never would. The endless cycle of guilt: the need to escape it and the equally desperate need to cling to it.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“You married?"

Quinn shook his head.

"Divorced?"

"Once. A long time ago."

So long ago, the brief attempt at marriage seemed more like a half-remembered bad dream than a memory. Bringing it up was like kicking a pile of ashes, stirring old flecks of emotional debris inside him-feelings of frustration and failure and regret that had long since gone cold.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“He thought again of the two hookers whose death had preceded this woman's and wondered who had caught their cases: a good cop or a bad cop. Every department had its share of both. He'd seen cops shrug and sleepwalk through an investigation if they didn't feel the victim was worth their time. And he'd seen veteran cops break down and cry over the violent death of someone most taxpaying citizens wouldn't sit next to on the bus.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“That's the hardest thing to cope with when a young person dies—especially when they've been murdered. The unfulfilled dreams, the unrealized potential. The people close to them—family, friends—thought they had so much time to make up for mistakes, plenty of time down the road to tell that person they loved them. Suddenly that time is gone.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“Kate”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“That's the thing about digging holes,” Quinn said. “There are no assurances you'll find what you want—or want what you find.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“It sounds like something from a comic book. It conjures images of Nazi war criminals”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“Sabin get his way. He wanted Kovac to”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“Everyone was a victim of something.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“The only rule of survival in a situation like this: Shut your mouth and keep moving.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“Anybody can look like a genius if they have all the answers ahead of time,” Quinn said.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“The endless cycle of guilt: the need to escape it and the equally desperate need to cling to it.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“lot, but she wasn't very sociable.”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes

“drawing another chorus of groans. “Bondurant won't talk to us, and I don't like that. He told”
― Tami Hoag, Ashes to Ashes