Crime Mysteries Quotes

#1. Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

Rex Stout

#2. F***, some people are so determined to be good that it makes me want to puke.
Bruno Hanson in
In The Shadow of Sadd.

Steen Langstrup

#3. I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with].

Jim McDermott

#4. Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge.

B.V. Lawson

#5. Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.

Jo Nesbo

#6. You know how it is when one talks of liberty. Everything seems beautifully simple. One expects every gate to open and every wall to fall flat.

Robert Graves

#7. People who are too sensitive go crazy, remember that

Paul Pope

#8. We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.

Tabatha Coffey

#9. Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.

B.V. Lawson

#10. I just can't comprehend, that you, Borge, of all people, couldn't keep your mouth shut.

Steen Langstrup

#11. How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.

C.J. Sansom

#12. You are more in control of your destiny than you have ever imagined.

Bill Courtney

#13. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

William Shakespeare

#14. It's an insane, insane crime, a lot of it isn't going to make sense. That's why people are so obsessed with these murders. If they made any sense, they wouldn't really be mysteries, right?

Gillian Flynn

#15. Enough , you hens!" Niobe exploded. "It's tentative!"
Lachesis snorted "As tentative as a pregnancy,girl!

Piers Anthony

#16. All that crap about love and fairness and doing something with your life, Bruno ... Those are luxury problems. The CEO's wife can go around worrying about that stuff. People like us from the projects have to play by a different set of rules."

George Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd

Steen Langstrup

#17. People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

Denise Mina

#18. He lived long enough to give the chaplain his name - John Goetchius - but died before he could tell the kind man where his home was.

Katherine Paterson

#19. You'll be very close to him when you shoot him. So shove the pistol in his face and pull the trigger instantly."

Ingrid aka 'Alis K'
The Informer

Steen Langstrup

#20. I'm drowning in whiskey river.

Willie Nelson

#21. The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

A.R. Rahman

#22. Foreign food isn't really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week.

Steen Langstrup

#23. There are criminals everywhere these days, you know. One might end up missing the police! Who would have thought that possible?
The Maid
The Informer by Steen Langtrup

Steen Langstrup

#24. Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.

Thom Yorke

#25. The music takes on all different jobs and hopefully is part of telling the story. Each song has to be a story unto itself. It's a very different set of muscles.

Frank Wildhorn

#26. I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Stephen King

#27. I covered the body with a rug. You think I'm an idiot?
Bruno Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd.

Steen Langstrup

#28. That pistol I gave you is a piece of crap. You can't hit anything with it, not at that distance."
Staring at her with tears in his blinking eyes, he says, "I did."
Conversation between Alis K and Willy
The Informer

Steen Langstrup

#29. well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded
-Diana, Princess of Wales

Cathy Lowne

#30. I miss you when you're not around,' he said. 'I can't sleep when you're not next to me, and I worry a lot about what you're up to.

Victoria Laurie

#31. Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#32. That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.
#ShadowofSadd #Books

Steen Langstrup

#33. Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.

Frank K. Sonnenberg

#34. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.

---Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Donna Cummins

#35. AK 47, is perfect copy, yes? Every detail. Like real thing. Yes. Kalashnikov. Your boy, he be happy for Uncle Sante, no?"
"I'm sorry, Sante. It's really nice of you, but I don't want Sofus playing with guns."
Conversation between George Hanson and Sante
In The Shadow of Sadd

Steen Langstrup

#36. We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman's boat."

Johannes aka 'BB'
The Informer by Steen Langstrup

Steen Langstrup