Top 10 Quotes by Linda Barnes

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

Linda Barnes

Warning, Want, Might

Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.114, Open Road Media

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

Linda Barnes

Half, Mystery, Used

Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.67, Open Road Media

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

Linda Barnes

Singers, Comes And Goes, Music Business

Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.4, Open Road Media

Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art.

Linda Barnes

Art, Sex, Men

Linda Barnes (2013). “A Trouble of Fools”, p.39, Macmillan

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

Linda Barnes

Mean, Order, Personality

Linda Barnes (2015). “Further Adventures of Carlotta Carlyle: Three Mystery Stories”, p.14, Open Road Media

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

Linda Barnes

Latin, Ghetto, Insults You

Linda Barnes (2015). “Cold Case”, p.9, Open Road Media