Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.

No. It's no the same. The interviewers want you to say what they want to hear. I want to hear what you have to say.

It's a piece of cake, being a lawyer or a doctor or a computer systems analyst or an accountant. Libraries are full of books telling you how to do it. The only textbooks for private eyes are on fiction shelves, and I don't remember ever reading one that told me how to interrogate an eight-year old without feeling like I was auditioning for the Gestapo.

It's only hunting you that keeps me from being you.

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.

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,

It had seemed a good idea at the time to order the furniture for her new home online from a chain retailer.

We see some of the worst things that mankind can do to each other and I still get shocked by some of the things that occur. Most people can go home and talk to their families about what they’ve done at work. We can’t. But even if I could, I don’t want my family to know some of the things that I’ve seen.

Val McDermid

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Written By Val McDermid

Written By Val McDermid

Written By Val McDermid

Written By Val McDermid

Written By Val McDermid

Written By Val McDermid

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