Edna Buchanan Quotes

#1. Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

Edna Buchanan

#2. In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

Edna Buchanan

#3. Life is a death-defying experience.

Edna Buchanan

#4. Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

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#5. True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

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#6. Friends are family you choose.

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#7. You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

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#8. If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

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#9. I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.

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#10. Friends are the family we choose for ourselves

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#11. The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

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#12. Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

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#13. I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

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#14. A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

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#15. Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.

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#16. Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.

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#17. You can't be what you can't see.

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#18. Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and ... you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

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#19. Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.

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#20. To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

Edna Buchanan