Top 93 Jonathan Kellerman Quotes
#2. Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.
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#3. Psychopaths, skillful as they are at manipulating others, have trouble with emotional regulation and generally screw up at either extreme: theatrical histrionics or cold stoicism.
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#5. They say you don't grow up until you lose your parents. Frankly, I'd prefer to be immature.
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#6. Too many cases thrown out of court, too much pop-psycho crap, satanic bullshit ... if you FEEL you've been abused, you HAVE been!
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#7. The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).
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#8. Maybe still waters did run deep. Or God on your side was the ultimate soul balm.
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#9. The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
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#10. Than the first, so you could have a fairly recent crime. But that could also
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#11. Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.
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#13. had nothing to do so she just sat there. The boys ignored her and continued to eat, slowly but without pause, like robots. The eggs looked stiff and rubbery and Grace already knew what Ramona's
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#14. except sociopaths trying to sell me term insurance, home security, and lawn care.
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#15. 40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all-unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense.
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#16. Her basic disposition was a good deal sunnier than mine. But I was a better faker.
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#17. Then, the stunningly white cubes that make up the Getty Museum. It's an architectural masterpiece funded by a venal billionaire's trust, housing third-rate art. Pure L.A.: might makes right and packaging is all. Traffic
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#20. Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.
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#21. Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic.
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#22. Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am ...
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#23. From Heartbreak Hotel:
(Thalia)" knew how tot focus on what was important and she kept things simple"
"Live long enough and everything becomes. Live long enough and your interests narrow
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#24. It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.
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#25. -Nice concept.
-What is?
-Retreating. Getting away from the grind.
-Oh, you never do. You just change gears.
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#27. The white in her hair verged on silver-plate. The style was some cosmetologist's ode to meringue.
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#28. Most people aren't overly afflicted with curiosity. It separates the creative and the tormented from the rest of the pack. -
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#30. We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive.
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#31. Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.
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#35. Creighton tried to smile again. The result fit him like panty hose on a mastiff.
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#36. I saw this cartoon in the paper, once. That Viking, Hagar the Horrible? He's standing on the mountaintop, holding his hands to the heavens, shouting "Why me?" And down from the heavens comes the answer: "Why not?" Maybe that's the ultimate truth; what right to do I have to expect a smooth ride?
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#37. Icy people often freeze themselves in order to hold in check a volcanic stew of disturbing and conflictual feelings. Emotional hibernation, if you will. Crack the ice and the stuff inside comes pouring out with all the discipline of molten lava.
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#39. All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there's always a key out there that opens it.
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#40. I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)
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#41. If you couldn't get the outcome you wanted, torture 'em with process.
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#42. Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.
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#43. That was the thing about knowing people's secrets: It could make them not like you.
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#45. I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist ... it was a great education in human nature.
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#46. Do I think you're a sucker for her? I'd term it emotionally susceptible and yeah, you sure are.
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#47. I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors
there are studies that show it
are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching.
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#48. It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.
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#49. Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience".
"What's pessimism?" I said.
"Religion without God.
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#50. I'll buy lunch."
"Not Hungry."
I laughed.
He said, "I can't stand when you do that."
"Do what?"
"Assume I'm ruled by my digestive system."
"God forbid," I said, "Want me to drive? Think T-bone.
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#51. Just because others have it worse doesn't mean you have to suffer in silence.
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#52. Keith Moon in Wembley, England, all facts attested to by the writing on the memorials.
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#55. Siblings are thrown together by chance. Anything from love to hate can follow.
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#59. But in the words of a great philosopher, you can't always get what you want.
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#61. These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
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#64. atop his head a goofy skin cap simulating baldness and fringed with shoulder-length scraggle.
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#65. Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.
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#67. Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.
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#68. Grace is false, and beauty is vain. A woman who fears God - she is praised. Give to her of the fruit of her hands, and her deeds will praise her at the gates.
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#69. soothing: re-press of an old French recording of Ida Presti, possibly the greatest guitarist who ever lived, and her husband Alexandre Lagoya, pairing on Debussy's "Clair de Lune.
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#70. Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann
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#71. -a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected.
The Butcher's Theater
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#72. There's profit in law enforcement?" "I was thinking spiritually." -
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#73. A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)
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#74. If the whole country ever got that industrious the Japanese wouldn't stand a chance.
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#75. If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us ... but they're still fucking psychopaths.
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#77. Home was where the heart was and Grace's heart was a hunk of muscle that worked just fine on its own.
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#78. I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.
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#80. Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.
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#82. The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.
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#83. Pessimism is not good for the soul."
"I sold my soul years ago."
"To whom?"
"The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.
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#85. Grinding his jaws. Barb snapped, "Over and done, put a fork in it." Stan
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#86. It's simply not relevant to my role as an advocate, and even to begin to think along those lines would hamper me in the execution of my duties.
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#88. His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)
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#89. Because like all psychopaths he was grandiose, and convinced of his own personal magnetism, assumed worship on the part of others.
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#90. That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.
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#91. That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right.
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#93. The symptoms of madness can often be altered with medication, but there's no therapy for evil.
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