Conlon Quotes

#1. FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands, beats egg white under her words and the whole thing rises like a dream. It's a love story for her people and for a time and place. Read it.

Alexandra Fuller

#2. R.I.P.
Tom Conlon O'Rourke.
Not Dead, just Sleeping.

Spike Milligan

#3. FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

Beverly Donofrio

#4. Lieutenant Harry Kim was, without doubt, the most optimistic individual she had ever known. No matter how close the darkness came, his determination to overcome it and certainty that goodness would prevail was refreshing. Conlon

Kirsten Beyer

#5. Later that day when I passed the Admin lieutenant and the Sargeant standing by the Desk, I said casually, "I'm leaving too, Sarge."
"Okay," he said, and I kept on walking.

Edward Conlon

#6. I had to agree with one ex-boyfriend of one crackhead complainant who'd gone missing, when he told me with disdain, 'This is a whole big bunch of unbelievable!

Edward Conlon

#7. As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

Lysette Anthony

#8. Trees allow their old leaves to fall so they can then blossom.

Renee Rentmeester

#9. We are accustomed to losing things we love and people we adore but that doesn't change the fact that loss hurts.

Abdullah Abu Snaineh

#10. The end of ourselves is the beginning of God

Carter Conlon

#11. I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.

Edward Conlon

#12. Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth.

James Conlon

#13. In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a "well-rounded detective" was a jibe around his weight.

Edward Conlon

#14. Fortunately, there is a project that will create jobs, provide direct investment in our economy, and move us closer to our longstanding goal of becoming energy independent: the Keystone XL pipeline.

Kevin McCarthy

#15. I stopped knowing what to fight against."
"May you find some measure of happiness in your surrender. May we all.

Kiersten White

#16. I'm in charge of all this - I run this universe!

Eugene H. Peterson

#17. HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

David Geffen

#18. You are beyond worth and your potential to change is in your next thought.

Toni Sorenson

#19. Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it
and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Phyllis Bottome

#20. You do not mean there is danger of peace?, cried Jack.

Patrick O'Brian

#21. A man cannot directly choose his future.....but
he can directly choose his present ...so indirectly shape his future.

Dr Lloyd Magangeni

#22. Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

Edward Conlon

#23. Suspense doesn't always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

Sandy Vaile

#24. The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it.

S.A. Tawks

#25. It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

Edward Conlon

#26. Best friends always know when the other's lying.

Wendy Mass

#27. Do you like being a cop?"
"I love it, when it doesn't suck, sir.

Edward Conlon

#28. On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.

Edward Conlon