18 Quotes by Julia Spencer-Fleming

[Father Aberforth]: “...Have you figured out what you’re going to do with this married man of yours?” ... “I’m not here to judge you, girl. You think you’re the first sheep to wander out of the fold because greener pastures beckon?” He reached for his tea. “At least you show some originality. Most priests who dabble in adultery go for the music director or one of the warden’s wives. The town’s chief of police—that’s novel. Not too bright, but novel.

He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.

If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.

Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland’s writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition!

Oh. Sorry. I never met a woman priest before.” “We’re just like the men priests, except we’re willing to pull over and ask directions.

Because the things you have, and the neighborhood you live in, doesn’t have anything to do with what kind of human being you are.

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over “I’ll try” to “I can’t.

And as for people shunning us because of our known association with homosexuals” – here she wiggled her eyebrows, because she sounded ridiculously like Joseph McCarthy – “I say we don’t want new members who would think like that. We want people who will admire us for taking a stand and who will say, ‘Yes, that’s Christianity; that’s how I want to live it and that’s the church I want to belong to.

If you know a person’s history, you can use it to help predict what that person might do. A person’s history can be the key to understanding his motivation for committing a crime.