Carol Jordan Quotes

#1. I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.

Chelsea Cain

#2. I was just finishing up my drink then I was off to get the night bus.' Carol grinned. 'Your sophistication never ceases to amaze me. What's wrong with a taxi?' 'You get a better class of nutter on the night bus. I blend in perfectly

Val McDermid

#3. I happen to be partial to humans - most, anyway. Clowns, not so much. Those evil bastards never stop smiling.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#4. You are Tadeusz Radecki? I am in the right place?' 'I know who I am. What I want to know is who you are.

Val McDermid

#5. Attractive smile, Carol added to her list of particulars as she shook the hand.

Val McDermid

#6. I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

Os Guinness

#7. What do you think, boy? is he just another lying bastard, or what?' 'Prrrt,' the cat said on a rising intonation, his eyes closed to slits. 'I thought you'd say that. I agree, I know how to pick them,

Val McDermid

#8. Tony got up from his desk and crouched down beside her. She was instantly aware of the smell of him, a mixture of shampoo and his own fain, animal scent.

Val McDermid

#9. It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind.

Santosh Kalwar

#10. He spread his hands in a self-deprecating gesture. 'Well, I'm not a cop. And I'm not a woman.' She couldn't resist. 'I had noticed.

Val McDermid

#11. Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

Horace Mann

#12. You know, I've often wondered. It's pretty clear what they were up to in Sodom, but what do you suppose the sin of Gomorrah was?' Carol asked.

Val McDermid

#13. Comedians love people to point and laugh at them, naturists don't.

Roy Station

#14. It forced me to realise that I'd been blaming you for not being flawless. And none of us is flawless.' Another sigh. 'I was so angry with myself for what happened to Michael and Lucy that I had to turn my anger somewhere else and you were the easiest target.

Val McDermid

#15. They both possessed a victimhood that had been conferred because they'd both been guilty of being female in a world where some men believed they deserved never to feel powerless.

Val McDermid

#16. I'm telling you the truth, Carol. Even though it's actually none of your business.'
She half turned, found a smile from somewhere and said, 'You're quite right. It is none of my business. Till tomorrow Tony.

Val McDermid

#17. The nurse looked surprised. 'You're a bit high on the totem pole to be taking statements.' Carol debated momentarily how to describe her relationship with Tony. 'Colleague' was insufficient, 'landlord' somehow misleading and 'friend' both more and less than the truth. She shrugged. 'He feeds my cat.

Val McDermid

#18. It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company

David Allen

#19. Why are you only coming home just after three? Do you want a drink? I'm wide awake now.'
He could be so like a small child, she thought. Out of nowhere, all eagerness and curiosity.

Val McDermid

#20. People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.

Frank Caliendo

#21. I know that. I do watch Spooks.' Carol was surprised. 'You do? I don't.' 'You should. They do.

Val McDermid

#22. I think it's our job to be happy and find happiness for ourselves.

Guy Branum