22 Quotes by Belinda Bauer

Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the first could be detected, and where the catalyst had been vaporized by the sheer shock of the new.

You're different, you know.""Only different from you," he said. "Not different from me.

Everybody else possessed the key to popularity and happiness, and his clumsy attempts to find his own key always ended with other children looking at him funny, or calling him names.

To catch a killer, one must think like a killer

Then he stared down at the twinkling lights and sobbed, "All my stars fell out of the sky.

I'm going to speak to professor Madoc about this.""OK," said Patrick. Mick seemed disappointed that he wasn't more worried by the prospect."All right, you can get out now.""OK," said Patrick and didn't go.

She turned and almost bumped into Elvis Presley. He was 9 feet tall, and silver and black. All quiff and narrow hips, angled for danger and sex. No hint of the drugs or the fried peanut-butter-and banana sandwiches to come. Only his youth and beauty were captured here on this canvas, and standing in front of the painting made her feel somehow connected to Elvis.

She was standing where the artist had stood. Vincent Van Gogh had stood right here and watched these creamy-pink clouds roll in, watched these cypresses sway in the breeze, travelled every muddy inch of these furrows - first with his boots and then with his brush. And then he had reached out and touched the sky.

Nothing sold like murder, and death was how she paid the mortgage.