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Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2) QUOTES

Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2) QUOTES

1 " The familiarity is balm for my soul and I take a moment to soak it in, hoping my emotions don’t choose this moment to betray me. "

― Linda Castillo , Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)

2 " The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or so I tell myself, anyway. "

― Linda Castillo , Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)

3 " Some cases are more complicated than others. It’s not that the perpetrators are unduly cunning; most are as mindless as the crimes they commit. More often than not, it’s the relationship dynamics of the cops involved that throw an investigation into turmoil. "

― Linda Castillo , Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)

4 " I’m not a self-destructive person. I learned that lesson at a relatively young age. But at some point during the drive from the police station to the bar, I stopped thinking. I stopped being reasonable. I stopped being so goddamn responsible. Sometimes none of those things make a damn bit of difference. "

― Linda Castillo , Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)

5 " You’ve been a cop long enough to know that sometimes bad things happen to good people. It’s out of your control. You gotta let go or it will drive you nuts. "

― Linda Castillo , Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)

6 " with me an instant before "

― Linda Castillo , Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)

7 " It’s the living who are left to suffer. A hard truth, but that’s the way it is. "

― Linda Castillo , Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)

8 " I’d heard veteran cops talk about life altering cases. Cases that haunt a cop long after they’re closed. I’ve had cases like that myself. Cases that fundamentally changed me. Changed the way I view people. The way I perceive my job as a cop. The way I see myself. Standing there with the stench of blood filling my nostrils, I know this is going to be one of those cases. "

― Linda Castillo , Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)

9 " Crimes like this baffle the mind. They break your heart. They’ll tear you up inside if you let them. "

― Linda Castillo , Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)