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1 " Sometimes the law is about as useful as tits on a bull. Good people end up hurt. "
― Joanna Schaffhausen , The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)
2 " Essentially all serial offenders experience trauma in childhood that leaves them unable to form normal emotional and psychological connections with other humans. "
― Joanna Schaffhausen
3 " Dogs are the cure for whatever ails you, "
4 " From nowhere came a memory: "
― Joanna Schaffhausen , All the Best Lies (Ellery Hathaway, #3)
5 " Why is it always about the mother?” She looked to Ellery. “The school notices come to me, not him. It’s the mothers who are expected to contribute to the bake sales and make the posters for the book fair and volunteer at the Halloween parade. If the homework is late, if the child isn’t practicing her piano enough, the teachers go to the mother, not the father. Fathers can jet off to work for weeks at a time. They can be twenty-five or sixty-five and no one bats an eye. "
― Joanna Schaffhausen , Every Waking Hour (Ellery Hathaway, #4)
6 " first lesson on the fragility of family life, how one small act could alter the whole interwoven tapestry and you could sew it back up, but it would never look quite the same. "
7 " If money wasn’t going to make you happy, it could at least make you comfortable while you dealt with all your other shit. "
8 " She was right that he would never fully understand. He couldn’t climb into the darkness with her. But he could stand in the light and extend his hand and wait patiently to see if she would join him. "
9 " If you watch a lot of true-crime shows, you start to notice a sameness to them. "
― Joanna Schaffhausen , Gone for Good (Detective Annalisa Vega, #1)
10 " This girl must really have your pecker in a pretzel if you’re playing kamikaze with your career for her. "
― Joanna Schaffhausen , No Mercy (Ellery Hathaway, #2)
