163 Quotes by Jeffery Deaver

Knuckle time” referred to those moments when you have to go up against your worst fears.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you’re a professor, and one frankly doesn’t get a lot of girls as a poet.

You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There’s no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the result is the opposite of what you hope and dream for. This seemed so unfair.

At the front door I spit on the hinges to keep them from squealing and we eased it silently open.

If you have a craftsman’s command of the language and basic writing techniques you’ll be able to write – as long as you know what you want to say.

He didn’t want to die on Monday. It seemed common.

A long moment of debate. I looked at Zagaev’s amulet, Alexander II with his impressive mustache. Though arguably the most liberal of the tsars, the emancipator of the serfs, he was assassinated by revolutionaries.

Where did phobias come from? Sachs wondered. Some childhood trauma, some genetic imprinting.

Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates – a very good game, by the way – I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I’ve done. Even.