Jeffery Deaver > Quotes

“She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bodies Left Behind

“Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.”
― Jeffery Deaver

“We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Edge

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. —LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Cold Moon

“It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Edge

“Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present – and that's constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life's illusory.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Vanished Man

“In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.”
― Jeffrey Deaver

“But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Coffin Dancer

“She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.”
― Jeffrey Deaver, Roadside Crosses

“I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own.” The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone...”
― Jeffery Deaver, Carte Blanche

“You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.”
― Jeffery Deaver

“I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after.
 Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean martin... If the lyrics weren't stupid. Words were important.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Edge

“As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourself against fools. You have to protect yourself against people like me.”
― Jeffery Deaver

“This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. —ARISTOTLE”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Coffin Dancer

“It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Edge

“Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of it. I really wish he had finished his thought.)”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“Doctor, do you read the Harry Potter books?”
“Well, as a matter of fact, yes, I have.”
“The fourth was my favorite. What was yours?”
“Umm, I don’t know really.”
“Is it possible,” the prosecutor asked the witness, “that those writings of Mr. Kobel are merely attempts at writing a novel? Some big fantasy book.”
“I…I can’t imagine it.”
“But it’s possible, isn’t it?”
“I suppose. But I’ll tell you, he’ll never sell the movie rights.”
― Jeffery Deaver

“as old as we may be in flesh, we are always young in the bone”
― Jeffrey Deaver

“Family is about love and affection but about friction and separation, too. Yet, with work and luck, the distances—geographic and emotional—can be shrunk, even made to vanish.”
― Jeffery Deaver, XO

“If they were expected,” she shot back, “then they wouldn’t be breakthroughs, now would they?”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“WHEN YOU MOVE THEY CAN’T GETCHA ‘A”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn’t the streets of Laredo.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Hell's Kitchen

“Inspiring isn’t the same as plotting.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Kill Room

“Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one’s own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice—even giving up one’s life.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Stone Monkey