Kathy Reichs Quotes

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

My line of work makes you aware of the fragility of life. You can get up in the morning, eat your cornflakes, blow-dry your hair, go to work and end up dead.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps

High school popularity is so fickle.

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the Eiffel Tower at night, being chased by ninja vampires

As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!

Let's do it. Monkeys are always funny. You pretty much can't go wrong with a monkey, right? Hi paused. Well unless that monkey wants you dead, or does needle drugs or something. Then it's wrong, and a bad monkey.

People love to hate the gravedigger.

God help anyone who messes with the Virals!

We did just leave an insane asylum,” Hi agreed. “For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada.

Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.

I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.

I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.