Kathy Reichs Quotes

Hiram!’ Shelton ran to Hi’s side. ‘Aren’t you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!’ ‘Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.’ He winced as Shelton poked his belly. ‘But I’m not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid.

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

Ben locked his eyes on mine for a long moment. Then, How? How do you think? I smiled, then slapped him full across the face

I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It’s nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

Let’s do it. Monkeys are always funny. You pretty much can’t go wrong with a monkey, right? Hi paused. Well unless that monkey wants you dead, or does needle drugs or something. Then it’s wrong, and a bad monkey.

I’m not writing great literature. I’m writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

Tory a father isn’t supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.

What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I’m writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn’t have.

You all right now?I’m exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me.

Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.