93 Quotes by William Ritter

It isn’t every day you celebrate a successful solar revolution.

It was the first time I had ever heard him address me by my first name. I wanted to live long enough to hear him do it again.

Detective work is neither a happy nor a satisfying business, Miss Rook,” said Jackaby, settling in as the amber buildings sailed past our window. “Marlowe will understand.” “I don’t understand at all.” Commissioner Marlowe kept his voice low and even as we sat across from him the following morning.

Failure is not the opposite of success – it’s a part of it. And as failures go,” he added with a lopsided grin, “this one was really spectacular, wasn’t it?

But trust me, men are never worth it. Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron. Romance is for saps, Abbie. You’re sharp and you’ve got pluck. Don’t waste it.

Inspector Marlowe had sounded just like my father. “This business is not for the female temperament,” he had said – but Jackaby had not hesitated to point me toward the worst of it and ask for my opinions. It made me inexplicably excited that I would be working with this mad detective again. Looking back, I suppose I ought to have been less afraid of being left safely behind, and more afraid of the looming precipice ahead. I.

The real powers at play never take center stage. Don’t follow the marionette, follow the strings.

So often,” Jackaby said, “people think that when we arrive at a crossroads, we can choose only one path, but – as I have often and articulately postulated – people are stupid. We’re not walking the path. We are the path. We are all of the roads and all of the intersections. Of course you can choose both.

That’s nonsense,” said Jackaby. “Fortune favors the prepared. Unless you’re talking about the Fates, in which case fortune generally favors Zeus. Were you talking about the Fates?