Carved in Bone Quotes

“The story of her death was written in bone.”
― Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone

“The morgue looked deserted, though in fact it was never unattended.”
― Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone

“My God, is this a date?" Jeff had asked when I asked if I could bring her along.
"I don't know," I said. "She might still be happily lesbian.”
― Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone

“Did you say Mongoloid?” I nodded. “Man, that’s harsh. Why would somebody kill a retard?”
― Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone

“But fat could be squeezed through almost any opening, given enough effort,”
― Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone

“Okay, I’ve noticed some of you carefully studying the pelvises of your classmates. So I’m sure you’ll have no trouble identifying the differences between the male and female.”
― Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone

“When they hear the term “anthropology,” they think of Margaret Mead and her sexually liberated Samoans, or Jane Goodall and her colony of chimps, not physical anthropologists and their calipers and bones.”
― Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone

“I remembered a line from Garrison Keillor, whose public radio show UT’s NPR affiliate had broadcast for years: “Life is complicated, and not for the timid.” Amen to that, brother, I thought. Amen to that.”
― Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone

“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight…. They are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone