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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1) QUOTES

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1) QUOTES

1 " It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by eight thirty A.M. on any given morning. On the particular morning of Tuesday, October eighth, I was ready by seven forty-five. If you’ve never had to wrestle a two-year-old slathered in maple syrup into a diaper while your four-year-old decides to give herself a haircut in time for preschool, all while trying to track down the whereabouts of your missing nanny as you sop up coffee grounds from an overflowing pot because in your sleep-deprived fog you forgot to put in the filter, let me spell it out for you.

I was ready to kill someone. I didn’t really care who. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

2 " My Google search history alone was probably enough to put me on a government watch list. I wrote suspense novels about murders like this. I’d searched every possible way to kill someone. With every conceivable kind of weapon. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

3 " Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives.’ I make it a point never to assume the worst about people. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

4 " We are not adding grand larceny of farming equipment to our growing list of felonies. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

5 " You can’t spend your whole life shut up in that house, making up stories. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

6 " Nick and Vero glanced up as my heels clicked into the kitchen. Vero looked confused. “I’m sorry. Do I know you? Because I thought I worked for a vampire in yoga pants. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

7 " She chuckled darkly. “And to think you were worried about a damn shower curtain. Nothing says ‘serial killer’ like a chest freezer in a garage. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

8 " I concede that getting drunk and stuffing a wad of Delia's Play-Doh in the exhaust pipe of Theresa's BMW may not have been the best way to handle the news when he'd told me they were getting engaged, but letting her walk away with half my advance and my husband felt like salt in the wound. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

9 " My relationship with Panera was complicated. I liked their soup. Panera didn't like that I'd poured it over another customer's head. In my defense, Theresa had started it when she'd attempted to justify her reasons for sleeping with my husband. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

10 " It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by eight thirty A.M. on any given morning. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

11 " The devious curl of his lip suggested we had different definitions of professional, and I recoiled as he brushed a stray lock of hair from my face with the tip of his finger. “But tell me,” he said, slipping his hands back in his pockets, “what was the detective after? "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

12 " She said she’d received a death threat at her house and she’d been too afraid to say anything to the police, because she didn’t believe they could protect her. OCN sent someone over to her house to check out her claim, and sure enough, they found a knife mark in her back door, exactly where she told them to look. Apparently, her story checks out. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

13 " Ever heard of Hanlon’s razor? "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

14 " Fantasies where I let myself calculate how many economy-size packs of Huggies, Lean Cuisines, and baby wipes fifty thousand dollars could buy. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

15 " I’d been the one to put Theresa in the spotlight, even if I hadn’t intended to. I’d used her name and worn her clothes. I’d crossed a lot of lines these last two weeks, but if I let Nick arrest her for my mistakes, what kind of monster did that make me? This. This had to be the line I wasn’t willing to cross. I couldn’t bring Harris back from the dead, but maybe I could keep someone else from paying the price. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

16 " If we get caught, we’re not hiring some Abercrombie underwear model to keep us out of prison. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

17 " I’d been hired to kill an enforcer for the Russian mob. Suddenly, I wasn’t sure which was scarier— the possibility that I’d be caught by the police for a murder I didn’t commit, or the likelihood I’d be murdered by Andrei Borovkov once he learned what his wife had done. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

18 " Maybe I was unfit to mother my own children. Steven had never been the model parent, but the plot of my own life had gone off the rails since he’d left, and I was no closer to knowing what to do about it. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

19 " One that came with health insurance and paid sick days and didn’t involve diapers. Or corpses. "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

20 " Subs or Chinese?' I asked Vero. 'Even killers have to eat, right? "

― Elle Cosimano , Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)