The Hell You Say (The Adrien English Mysteries, #3) QUOTES

2 " It’s more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you’re talking about writing a series. How believable is it that this Hollywood gossip columnist is going to keep stumbling on all these murders? "

― Josh Lanyon , The Hell You Say (The Adrien English Mysteries, #3)

4 " My existence threatens you."

He shoved me back. hard. I crashed into the hall table, knocking it over, smashing the jar of old marbles I had collected. Glass balls skipped and bounced along the corridor. I landed on my back, my head banging down on the hardwood floor.

I lay there for a second, blinking up at the lighting fixture, taking in the years of dust and dead moths gathered in the etched-glass globe. The silence that followed was more startling than the collision of me and the table and the floor. I heard Jake's harsh breathing and a marble rolling away down the hall — which seemed pretty damned appropriate, since I'd apparently lost all of mine. "

― Josh Lanyon , The Hell You Say (The Adrien English Mysteries, #3)

6 " A Pause followed my greeting.

Then, 'We're watching you,' whispered the voice on the other end.

'Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? "

― Josh Lanyon , The Hell You Say (The Adrien English Mysteries, #3)

8 " He was right. I knew the score. He’d never pretended it was other than it was--whatever the hell that was.

I’d never kidded myself there was any chance for us. Well, not often anyway.
I guess my mistake had been in believing he was too smart and too honest not to eventually realize…

Not his feelings for me--because I didn’t think what he felt for me was that significant--but his own true nature. How could he deny what he was? How could he choose to live such a profound and cancerous deception? "

― Josh Lanyon , The Hell You Say (The Adrien English Mysteries, #3)

10 " Snowden said carefully, 'I've been unable to get in touch with the person I thought might know about our mutual friend's difficulty.'

The guy sounded like he worked for the CIA. Or Charles Dickens. "

― Josh Lanyon , The Hell You Say (The Adrien English Mysteries, #3)

12 " High school, college, the office, evil cults, everywhere you go, there’s that social hierarchy to contend with. "

― Josh Lanyon , The Hell You Say (The Adrien English Mysteries, #3)

14 " Not that I believe throwing money at a problem solves the problem — unless the problem is lack of money. "

― Josh Lanyon , The Hell You Say (The Adrien English Mysteries, #3)