Down a Dark River Quotes

“Disgust is often the handmaiden of fear, don’t you think?”
― Karen Odden, Down a Dark River

“But why can’t you be a little humble, stop acting as if you and you alone are saving the world? Walk around on the ground like the rest of us? Can’t you see that a shard of uncertainty, a trace of fellow feeling for someone who’s desperate or—or vulnerable—would make you a better inspector, a better man?”
― Karen Odden, Down a Dark River

“James’s thesis that there are four motives for murder: fear, revenge, passion, and greed. Cases involving the progeny of well-to-do families tend toward the latter two.”
― Karen Odden, Down a Dark River