Thicker than Blood Quotes

“Kids have almost three times as many taste buds as adults, so they experience taste differently and prefer simpler tastes.”
― Mike Omer, Thicker than Blood

“Libraries had a scent that nothing else did. Was it simply the intermingling smells of old pages, dust, adhesive, and ink? Or did the stories have a scent of their own? If you took papers and book glue and ink and mixed them together, would it smell the same?”
― Mike Omer, Thicker than Blood

“Secrets were sticky. They could clog your tear ducts if you weren’t careful.”
― Mike Omer, Thicker than Blood

“Control, he knew, wasn’t an actual thing that you had. It was more like an outfit, something you put on. A disguise for other people to see. As long as you acted as if you were in control, you were in control. They said a wolf in sheep’s clothing as if it was a bad thing. But wasn’t it what everyone wanted? For you to be one of the sheep?”
― Mike Omer, Thicker than Blood

“Know the victim, and you were already halfway to understanding the killer.”
― Mike Omer, Thicker than Blood

“She toyed with her phone, as she had many times in the past weeks, opening her contact list, her dad the first one in her favorites. Appropriate, since he was her favorite. Her favorite parent, her favorite human, her favorite thing in the whole world. She could tell him the truth. The weight in her heart would dissipate into nothing. Her finger wavered over the screen. For a second she could almost feel the anticipated relief.”
― Mike Omer, Thicker than Blood

“People were just walking pressure cookers, and if they didn’t let out some steam occasionally, they exploded.”
― Mike Omer, Thicker than Blood

“never guided professionally.” Dr. Terrel pointed out some additional minor details, but Zoe was only half listening. In all his murders, Glover had never”
― Mike Omer, Thicker than Blood