Finlay Donovan Is Killing It Quotes

“It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by eight thirty A.M. on any given morning. On the particular morning of Tuesday, October eighth, I was ready by seven forty-five. If you’ve never had to wrestle a two-year-old slathered in maple syrup into a diaper while your four-year-old decides to give herself a haircut in time for preschool, all while trying to track down the whereabouts of your missing nanny as you sop up coffee grounds from an overflowing pot because in your sleep-deprived fog you forgot to put in the filter, let me spell it out for you.

I was ready to kill someone. I didn’t really care who.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“My Google search history alone was probably enough to put me on a government watch list. I wrote suspense novels about murders like this. I’d searched every possible way to kill someone. With every conceivable kind of weapon.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by eight thirty A.M. on any given morning.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“My relationship with Panera was complicated. I liked their soup. Panera didn't like that I'd poured it over another customer's head. In my defense, Theresa had started it when she'd attempted to justify her reasons for sleeping with my husband.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“You can’t spend your whole life shut up in that house, making up stories.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“Nick and Vero glanced up as my heels clicked into the kitchen. Vero looked confused. “I’m sorry. Do I know you? Because I thought I worked for a vampire in yoga pants.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“We are not adding grand larceny of farming equipment to our growing list of felonies.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“You never want to be the asshole that leaves a message promising to kill someone for being late, only to find out they’ve already been murdered.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“Sometimes, she'd said, you can't see the whole story until it's laid out on the page, and the only way to figure out what happens next is to write your way through it, one scene after the next, until it's done.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“She chuckled darkly. “And to think you were worried about a damn shower curtain. Nothing says ‘serial killer’ like a chest freezer in a garage.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives.’ I make it a point never to assume the worst about people.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“The devious curl of his lip suggested we had different definitions of professional, and I recoiled as he brushed a stray lock of hair from my face with the tip of his finger. “But tell me,” he said, slipping his hands back in his pockets, “what was the detective after?”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“pasted on a strained smile. Steven knew how to break things, too. Like dreams and wedding vows.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“Biting back a swear my two-year-old was certain to repeat for weeks in the grocery cart if I voiced it aloud, I tossed the hairy poultry shears into”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“I concede that getting drunk and stuffing a wad of Delia's Play-Doh in the exhaust pipe of Theresa's BMW may not have been the best way to handle the news when he'd told me they were getting engaged, but letting her walk away with half my advance and my husband felt like salt in the wound.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“She said she’d received a death threat at her house and she’d been too afraid to say anything to the police, because she didn’t believe they could protect her. OCN sent someone over to her house to check out her claim, and sure enough, they found a knife mark in her back door, exactly where she told them to look. Apparently, her story checks out.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“STEVEN DONOVAN $100,000 CASH The address was my ex-husband’s farm.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“His eyes narrowed as he hit the gas. “To dig up your ex-husband’s farm.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“Irina’s eyes were cold and cutting as she looked at me sideways, her chin held high, above any judgment or remorse. “Patricia Mickler no longer exists. I made certain of it.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“That’s where things get a little weird.” He set down his drink, trailing a line of condensation with his thumb. “I’m not saying she’s a suspect. But she’s definitely a person of interest in the case.” His dark eyes lifted to mine. “We think Harris Mickler may have left the bar with your ex-husband’s fiancée, Theresa Hall.”
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“The tension slid from her shoulders, as if she’d resigned herself to some decision. “In that case, fifty percent.” My mouth hung open as she folded her arms over her chest. “I help you get rid of the body, and we split everything. Fifty-fifty.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“I sucked on a lime wedge while I considered how to answer that. What the hell. Why not? “Theresa,” I said, holding out a hand.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“I shook my head, still lost in the bizarre turn of the conversation. I glanced down at the bloody burp rag in my lap. At the knife in my open diaper bag and the duct tape threaded with Delia’s hair. I thought back to the woman’s pale face as she listened to our conversation between covert glances at my bag on the floor. The bad guy gets handled, our sympathetic woman reveals the depths of her gratitude, everyone lives happily ever after, and you get a big fat check. Oh, god.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“My relationship with Panera was complicated. I liked their soup. Panera didn’t like that I’d poured it over another customer’s head. In my defense, Theresa had started it when she’d attempted to justify her reasons for sleeping with my husband.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“math was math, no matter who was holding the calculator.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“Most of the time, she’s sort of pale like a vampire, because she doesn’t leave the house much. But she’s got a few freckles here and there, so more like a friendly neighborhood sparkly vamp than one of those creepy coffin-dwelling kinds.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“Unfortunately, the man’s made of Teflon. Nothing sticks. He should’ve been locked up a dozen times, but there isn’t a judge in the state with the balls to convict him.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“It felt more like I was making out with a dead guy rather than trying to revive one, not unlike the last few times Steven and I did it before the divorce. Apparently, I couldn’t save anything then either.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“or some knowledge of jujitsu.”
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“people.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It