Serpentine Quotes

“As in most cities, L.A.’s venerable country clubs were founded as citadels of us versus them. Wasn’t success judged by who you rejected?”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Serpentine

“he pulled it off, I got stuck with him. He thought by being an A-plus ass-kisser he could get into my good graces. Sleazy. Did he finally turn criminal?” Speaking evenly but no mistaking the anger. Milo said, “Finally?”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Serpentine

“Hugging the wall, two forty-foot coconut palms shared space with a pair of equally towering Italian cypresses. Close to an unlocked iron-scroll gate, doddering birds-of-paradise coexisted with spatulate clumps of blue agapanthus.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Serpentine

“ham-and-eggs breakfast, the chicken’s involved but the pig’s committed.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Serpentine

“I listened as she griped enthusiastically about the pathetic emotional stamina of the undergrads foisted upon her. She’d said the same thing last year. I said, “It’s gotten worse?” “It’s nonstop devolution, Alex. The batch I got this semester is allergic to facts and feels entitled to unearned adoration. We’re talking the emotional musculature of blind cave worms.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Serpentine

“Red everywhere on Waze, as if the city were bleeding.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Serpentine

“No one spoke all the way to Hollywood.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Serpentine

“The problem is academics are students afraid to graduate, so their grasp on reality is for shit.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Serpentine

“Grumbling, grimacing, and mumbled curses peak during the muddled middle of murder investigations, when promising leads break their promises.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Serpentine