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Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2) QUOTES

Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2) QUOTES

1 " To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180) "

― Jonathan Kellerman , Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)

2 " I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors--there are studies that show it--are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching. "

― Jonathan Kellerman , Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)

3 " His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144) "

― Jonathan Kellerman , Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)

4 " I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179) "

― Jonathan Kellerman , Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)

5 " A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257) "

― Jonathan Kellerman , Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)

6 " Icy people often freeze themselves in order to hold in check a volcanic stew of disturbing and conflictual feelings. Emotional hibernation, if you will. Crack the ice and the stuff inside comes pouring out with all the discipline of molten lava. "

― Jonathan Kellerman , Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)

7 " again. It had gotten colder, but no better. "

― Jonathan Kellerman , Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)

8 " If the whole country ever got that industrious the Japanese wouldn’t stand a chance. "

― Jonathan Kellerman , Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)

9 " I’d long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors—there are studies that show it—are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching. "

― Jonathan Kellerman , Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)