Music City Murders Quotes

“I spread the photocopied articles in front of me and decided to start by cross-referencing the duplicates. Once I had the extra copies off to one side, I divided everything up by subject and put them in chronological order. I felt very organized and virtuous and even a bit obsessive-compulsive. Okay, I reasoned, you can’t force order on to your life but you can impose order on your stuff.”
― Steven Womack, Music City Murders: Harry James Denton, #1-6

“There wasn’t time to read the articles. I threaded in microfilm, reeled as quickly as possible to the right day, found each article, then dropped a quarter into the slot to print it. It was monkey work; a high school intern could have done it. Unfortunately, I had neither the intern nor the monkey.”
― Steven Womack, Music City Murders: Harry James Denton, #1-6

“Harry, I turn forty this year,” she said, her eyes filling. Bells went off in my head like a pinball jackpot. I thought carefully, keeping my jaw in neutral pending a careful check to make sure my brain was fully engaged and in gear. Somewhere in the innumerable combinations of the twenty-six letters that make up the English alphabet, there were the right words for just this moment. Now if I could only find them.”
― Steven Womack, Music City Murders: Harry James Denton, #1-6

“In this town, green doesn’t mean go; it means look both ways and, when all the idiots have finished running the light, proceed cautiously.”
― Steven Womack, Music City Murders: Harry James Denton, #1-6