Top 120 Jeffery Deaver Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”

— Jeffery Deaver

52. “And him?” I looked toward the revived guard. Freddy said, “Wants a lawyer like a baby wants a bottle.”

— Jeffery Deaver

53. “Sometimes you can’t be what you ought to be, you can’t have what you ought to have.”

— Jeffery Deaver

54. “Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one’s own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice – even giving up one’s life.”

— Jeffery Deaver

55. “Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they’re familiar with.”

— Jeffery Deaver

56. “God don’t give out certain.”

— Jeffery Deaver

57. “Natural selection applies to criminal activity, as well as to newts and simians.”

— Jeffery Deaver

58. “We tugged on door levers and jumped out, all our jackets fluttering in the wet breeze. I was limping – the toe still stung like crazy. DuBois and I moved in slowly, behind the eight armed tactical officers, who were sprinting into Yu’s open garage, brandishing weapons. “On the ground, FBI! FBI!” Screaming is standard operating procedure too. Intimidation, again. In.”

— Jeffery Deaver

59. “You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There’s no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the result is the opposite of what you hope and dream for. This seemed so unfair.”

— Jeffery Deaver

60. “At the front door I spit on the hinges to keep them from squealing and we eased it silently open.”

— Jeffery Deaver

61. “Curiously, while drone operators are perhaps the safest of all combat troops physically, they have among the highest rates of depression and post-traumatic stress in the military and national security services. Sitting at a video console in Colorado or New York City, killing someone six thousand miles away and then collecting the kids at gymnastics or football practice, having dinner and sitting down to watch Dancing with the Stars in your suburban den was disorienting beyond belief.”

— Jeffery Deaver

62. “We have to assume Loving’s found your account. If you read messages or send any, it’s possible for him to correlate time with router and server traffic in the area here.”

— Jeffery Deaver

63. “Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you’ll find anywhere today.”

— Jeffery Deaver

64. “It means working harder to do the research but I don’t really mind – I don’t think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.”

— Jeffery Deaver

65. “Okay,” Simpson said. “You got.”

— Jeffery Deaver

66. “You know, Lincoln, my father always said you can never trust anybody when they answer a question with a question.”

— Jeffery Deaver

67. “That’s the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it’s set in stone.”

— Jeffery Deaver

68. “Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you’re not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.”

— Jeffery Deaver

69. “Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.”

— Jeffery Deaver

70. “He tapped his pistol. “I’m loaded with Glasers.” Safety bullets. Powerful rounds that can kill, but they won’t penetrate Sheetrock and injure bystanders. They’re called suburb slugs.”

— Jeffery Deaver

71. “Islands – of times when you’re content, you don’t think about the loss. Now it’s like your world’s underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water’ll be there always but you’ll find dry land.”

— Jeffery Deaver

72. “You bet they did. Dellray was there. You should’ve seen him. He ordered every other case put on hold and said if metallurgy report wasn’t in your hands ASAP there’d be one mean mother – – you get the picture – – reaming their – – you get the rest of the picture.”

— Jeffery Deaver

73. “The greatest single threat to an investigator is unfamiliarity with his environment.”

— Jeffery Deaver

74. “Pulaski said, “Even psycho killers need to do home repairs. Probably it’s not related to the case.”

— Jeffery Deaver

75. “Speculation about the past is inefficient. And therefore irrelevant to achieving your goal. So.”

— Jeffery Deaver

76. “Always thinking. This was one of the reasons he loved her.”

— Jeffery Deaver

77. “I’m not a bad person.” Zagaev looked up at me with imploring eyes. Claims of ethical purity are a common strategy in games like this. But they’re paper, forever losing to scissors.”

— Jeffery Deaver

78. “A serial killer is a rare and specific criminal profile. In males the motives’re sexual in nature usually, or nonsexual sadism. And while there’s ritualistic behavior, that’s limited in most cases to binding or arranging the victims in certain ways or leaving fetishes at the scene or taking trophies, postmortem. The behavior doesn’t rise to the Composer’s level of elaborate staging – the videos, the noose, the music. He’s a multiple perpetrator.” Silence.”

— Jeffery Deaver

79. “Our SUV and four other cars accelerated fast and skidded up over the grass on Professor Peter Yu’s property, tearing up the lawn and destroying shrubs. I’m told that this dramatic entrance, which you’d think was made up by TV-movie directors, is in fact the most efficient way to approach a suspect. It’s all about intimidation. We.”

— Jeffery Deaver

80. “Knuckle time” referred to those moments when you have to go up against your worst fears.”

— Jeffery Deaver

81. “A long moment of debate. I looked at Zagaev’s amulet, Alexander II with his impressive mustache. Though arguably the most liberal of the tsars, the emancipator of the serfs, he was assassinated by revolutionaries.”

— Jeffery Deaver

82. “As I’d listened in on the conversation, I’d noted what seemed to be disappointment in Loving’s voice. I wondered if that was due to his reluctance to cease playing this game with me personally. But that was perhaps projecting my feelings onto him. I.”

— Jeffery Deaver

83. “You’re sure it was Loving?” “Yes. That’s exactly the kind of strategy he’d choose. There’s no doubt it was him.” I was aware of the corollary to that conclusion: Loving would know too – because of the escape strategy – that I was the opponent he was now playing against.”

— Jeffery Deaver

84. “I was disappointed. Voice analysis can tell a lot about the caller: gender, most of the time, national and regional roots, illnesses, even reasonable morphological deductions can be made about the shape of the nose, mouth and throat. But at least we had a confirmed spelling of the principal’s name, which was a plus.”

— Jeffery Deaver

85. “People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.”

— Jeffery Deaver

86. “Prewar.” It occurred to Rhyme that in Italy the phrase would, in most people’s minds, refer to the Second World War. Unlike America for the past eighty years, Italy had not regularly dotted the globe with tanks and infantry and drones. Thom.”

— Jeffery Deaver

87. “Boys groped, boys dissed, boys put you down. But it was the girls who made you bleed.”

— Jeffery Deaver

88. “Ross Macdonald.”

— Jeffery Deaver

89. “The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.”

— Jeffery Deaver

90. “I write pretty much anywhere – on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.”

— Jeffery Deaver

91. “NYPD check you out. So you’re clean.” She supposed she.”

— Jeffery Deaver

92. “But it works that way if it works.”

— Jeffery Deaver

93. “The young woman shrugged, walked to her computer, picked it up. She flopped down on the couch and scanned through it. This was something else I’d noticed that my principals had done more and more recently, in the safe house and halfway motels: withdrawn into their cyberwombs. Joanne.”

— Jeffery Deaver

94. “I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.”

— Jeffery Deaver

95. “Cameras’re sporadic.”

— Jeffery Deaver

96. “Loving was playing a Bayesian game now, one modeled on imperfect information.”

— Jeffery Deaver

97. “Well,” she said softly. “Just like a sculptor to get hurt by flying rock. Good thing you don’t collect razor blades and knives.”

— Jeffery Deaver

98. “When innocent people find themselves in situations that require the presence and protection of people like me, their reaction more often than not is as much bewilderment as fear. Mortality is tough to process. But.”

— Jeffery Deaver

99. “For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.”

— Jeffery Deaver

100. “If they were expected,” she shot back, “then they wouldn’t be breakthroughs, now would they?”

— Jeffery Deaver