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The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1) QUOTES

The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1) QUOTES

1 " True, my boy. Only Hashem is omniscient, and until He decides we’re worthy of His communication via prophets or the Messiah, we mortals are forced to live in a state of ignorance. I’ve spent my whole life learning, Detective, acquiring knowledge not only from the scriptures of my belief, but from countless other sources—American law, philosophy, psychology, economics, political science: I have studied them all at great length. Yet, a madman can slip under my nose, and I realize I know nothing. I am still a meaningless speck of dust in the scheme of things. A most humbling experience. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

2 " ingest a lot of illicit chemicals. The murder smacks of drug-frenzied adolescence. The dismembered arm and leg, the slit throat. Spaced-out teenage boys who love gore and have low impulse control. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

3 " What a crock of bullshit, Decker thought. He felt guilty. Initially, she’d reacted with anger, which was healthy, and he’d quelled her fire. Now, she was internalizing the bad hand she’d been dealt. “Rina, none of this is your fault. And no one is after your kids. If they’re out of the way, "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

4 " Simply this. If God was so sure that righteous Jewish men and women wouldn’t murder, why did He bother with the sixth commandment? "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

5 " No. She only dates Jews—religious Jews—if she dates at all. Her oldest boy, Sammy, sometimes talks to me. He says she doesn’t go out. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

6 " She was pretty pissed at him.” “Goddam fucking people,” Decker muttered. “Stupid bitch. She looks the other way while he’s out raping and beating up other women, but he kicks her precious poodle, and all of a sudden she decides he’s a menace to society. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

7 " She was a bitch. They’re all bitches. I’m telling you, they asked me to do it. They begged me. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

8 " Kikes!” Macko spit. “I wouldn’t fuck those pieces of shit if they was the last bitches on earth.” Decker’s eyes blurred for a split second. When they refocused, he realized his hand was on the butt of his .38. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

9 " Besides, I could never spit in my parents’ faces and suddenly declare myself a Jew, like my ‘real’ parents. It would upset them tremendously. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

10 " They ain’t American. They’re all spies for Israel, and they come here to bleed us of all our money and "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

11 " Theirs was a relationship that could never be. But she couldn’t help her feelings. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

12 " Anti-Semitism was nothing new to him. He’d grown up a good ole boy in Gainesville, where there was little direct contact with Jews but still a lot of prejudice. The locals regarded decadent Miami as a pinko watering hole for kikes, spics, and niggers. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

13 " Listen. Sarah wore a black wig that could have easily been mistaken for your own hair. You told me she said the rapist went wild after he pulled off the wig. Of course he’d become unglued. At that point he realized that he had the wrong woman. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

14 " It just burns me, Rina, that this creep has all the women here suspecting everything in pants. But I guess it’s natural. It must be tough to be a woman, huh? "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

15 " She said it was because I wasn’t Jewish, but I knew the truth. She was laughing behind my back at me. I know she was. She made me unable to function. They all did. They all laughed at me. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

16 " Alone at last, Rina stood up, stretched, and glanced at her watch again. Her own boys were still at the Computer Club. Steve would walk them home to a waiting baby-sitter so there was no need to rush. She could take her time. Removing her shoes, she rubbed her feet, slipped them into knitted socks and shuffled along the gleaming white tile. Loaded down with a bucket full of soapy water, a handful of rags, and a pail of supplies, she entered the hallway leading to the two bathrooms. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

17 " But that was just part of it. Some force was sucking him into this place. He knew he’d be returning here in a professional capacity. And that worried him. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

18 " It was cruelly ironic that his brilliant brain cells eventually led to his demise. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

19 " It’s those punk kids.” Ruthie Zipperstein grimaced. “They wear those Nazi armbands and the leather pants. Anti-Semites, each and every one of them. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if they were behind what happened at the mikvah. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)

20 " I would have felt that I nailed his coffin. He was a wonderful person, Peter. A sweet man with a brilliant mind. In some ways he was much more attentive to me than Yitzchak. He would never do anything criminal, Peter. Just as you wouldn’t. It’s not in his makeup. "

― Faye Kellerman , The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)