Deadly Desires Quotes

“His brother. He was gay. Died five years ago, not clear why. But from what we can see on Lovetree’s Facebook account, he blames it all on his brother’s sexuality.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Go on. Say it. My brother’s being held by a homophobe who’ll probably cut off his balls. A homophobe that I’m getting the distinct feeling you agree with.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Your brother has been abducted. We’re looking for him. You don’t need me to tell you all that. And you also don’t need me to tell you that an officer so closely involved with an investigation is always reassigned.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“I sometimes think Brandon loves those animals more than he does his girlfriend.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Surely there are some people who decide they’re going to be gay,” Ian said. “It is kind of cool, in some circles.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Mo thought of his own parents. His dad was traditional, like this family. His marriage to Catriona had caused a rift between them that had only cooled with his daughter Fiona’s birth.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“But it is what it is. He tries to persuade them to convert, then when they refuse, he removes the body organ that he thinks produces their sexual behaviour.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Yeah, yeah. It’s a mouthful, and you know it. I don’t care what your team think of me. But I do care about finding this fucker before he kills again. You either want me working this case, or you don’t.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“He tried to convince us we would be happier if we weren’t gay. That we’d be able to live normal lives, free of prejudice. Have kids. Then he started going on about God, saying if we converted we could be forgiven.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Because of what he did. The way he talked. This guy wasn’t gay. He hated us. He wanted to convert us.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Ian was about to say something about insubordination but then decided better of it. He had no plans to stay in this team for long, so what did it matter how they behaved towards him?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“For everything.” He waved an arm to take in their surroundings. “Being a single mum. Working too much when I was a kid. Not being able to bloody feed me properly.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“There isn’t an entire city full of gay men. And there certainly isn’t an entire city full of gay men whose mums are leading the investigation.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Jackson Potter.” He gave her an address in Stechford, to the east of the city centre.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“He’ll come back to where he left his victims. It’s an important place to him. He’ll want to relive what happened here. He’ll go back to Adam’s house, too. Have you got someone watching it?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Zoe curled her lip. Until five minutes ago, she’d thought the four men were just unfortunate victims of a hate criminal. But now she wasn’t so sure.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Connie had no idea if it was common for consultants to move between departments, but she doubted it. Had he moved, or was he pushed out?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“It didn’t hurt to be polite. Connie had learned from how Mo fell in with the behaviour of witnesses, putting them at their ease by accepting hospitality.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“You know he’s a homophobe.” “That would include a fair chunk of the population.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“I provoked him by being a gay man. I provoked him by bringing another man back to my house. I provoked him by refusing to stop being who I am. So yes, I guess you could say I provoked”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“He was articulate, he was coherent. He’d thought about what he was going to say to us. It was bullshit, all of it, but it kind of made sense in its own sick way.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Work with her, Zoe.” Lesley pushed herself off the desk. “Play nice. Whatever you or I think of the politics, we want to catch this bastard, and you never know what might help.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“This man does not hate women,” she continued. “Not as far as we know, and that’s not relevant anyway. He does not hate men. He very specifically hates gay men.” Petra stared Ian down. “He seems to believe that he can turn gay men straight, but when he discovers that he can’t, he attempts to desexualise them.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Nicholas shrugged. He liked Carl. He had an air of trustworthiness, and talked to Nicholas like he was a grown-up and not a kid.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“He asked us why we thought we were gay. What it was that ‘turned’ us. Had theories about our mothers, about our childhood. Mitch told him he’d never had a mum. The bastard loved that, thought it was proof of his theory. Then he tried to convince us that we would be better people, more use to society, if we slept with women instead of men.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“No? Oh come on, let’s not beat around the bloody bush here. We both know who we work for, and what he does. That’s how you get your roof done and your bathroom tarted up. It’s how I make my business purr like a jaguar on speed.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Of course he had. Didn’t all fathers ignore their kids? Didn’t all mothers love them?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Gay men marry too, you know. Or did we leave you behind in the dark ages?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“He cut their testicles off. He was trying to emasculate them, to humiliate them. Maybe he tried to have sex with them, and they refused.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Shifty, untrustworthy, aggressive. Never slimy.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires