Top 90 Kathy Reichs Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “That asshat couldn’t think his way through a fart without coaching.”

— Kathy Reichs

52. “I got through two reports, knocked off at five. Back home, I ate Bojangles’ chicken with Bird and watched a rerun of Bones. For some reason, the cat is nuts about Hodgins.”

— Kathy Reichs

53. “The woman matched the room. Pale pastel Chanel suit. Oscar de la Renta kitten heels. Diamond the size of a Krispy Kreme donut.”

— Kathy Reichs

54. “Alex kicked in Babylon but needed to get to Macedonia.” No chuckle. Rule of thumb. If a joke needs explanation, there is no point. I let it go.”

— Kathy Reichs

55. “Yo, warden. When do we eat around here? I’m hypoglycemic, plus I’ve got a hernia. And rabies simplex D. Basically, I need a ton of pills or my arms will fall off.”

— Kathy Reichs

56. “Or was the chill I felt triggered by forces other than wind?”

— Kathy Reichs

57. “An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps.”

— Kathy Reichs

58. “Most Bolton students were scions of the city’s wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the “boat kids” was practically a varsity sport.”

— Kathy Reichs

59. “I wore a white tank and jeans, shooting for “sexy casual.” Hoping it wasn’t “left farmhouse, got lost.”

— Kathy Reichs

60. “I try to be open-minded, to judge each individual on merit and accomplishment. I hold no bias against any belief system, sexual orientation, or skin color that differs from mine. I do not hate in stereotype.”

— Kathy Reichs

61. “There are times when all one can do is acknowledge the random futility of existing in this universe.”

— Kathy Reichs

62. “I only run if chased. Even then, I’m only going hard enough to outrun the next slowest person.”

— Kathy Reichs

63. “I’m always interested in the future. I plan to spend the rest of my life there.”

— Kathy Reichs

64. “Why did you have to be there? I’m so sorry. I’m so very, very sorry, Bird.”

— Kathy Reichs

65. “I’ve been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don’t like a lot of verbiage in there.”

— Kathy Reichs

66. “I ate with Wolf in the Situation Room. The pizza was good. The conversation did nothing to brighten my mood.”

— Kathy Reichs

67. “George Burns appeared again and said, “I’m always interested in the future. I plan to spend the rest of my life there.”

— Kathy Reichs

68. “I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.”

— Kathy Reichs

69. “The larger buildings are now rented out and house schools and institutions more secular in mission where the Internet and fax machine replace Scripture and theological discourse as the working paradigm. Perhaps it’s a good metaphor for modern society. We’re too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect.”

— Kathy Reichs

70. “I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.”

— Kathy Reichs

71. “More caffeine and sugar and I’d be photo-bombing the Hubble.”

— Kathy Reichs

72. “Jordan’s gone, bros.” Cole wiped crumbs from his greasy sweatshirt. “He bugged out right after you jokers gave him the third degree. Said CU wasn’t for him.” He snorted. “Y’all are, like, the leading cause of dropout around here.”

— Kathy Reichs

73. “Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms.” “Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village.”

— Kathy Reichs

74. “Vowels thicker than caramel on a Granny Smith.”

— Kathy Reichs

75. “I am a woman whose moods are influenced by the weather, my outlook rising and falling with the barometer.”

— Kathy Reichs

76. “We caught him,” I said. “Thats the fun part.” For us, at least. I doubt the fish would agree.”

— Kathy Reichs

77. “Sleep hath no enemy like an unrelenting cat.”

— Kathy Reichs

78. “Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.”

— Kathy Reichs

79. “I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It’s nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.”

— Kathy Reichs

80. “Then you and that mutt hijacked my thoughts and started dancing Gangnam Style on my cerebral cortex.”

— Kathy Reichs

81. “Wind beat at the annex like an angry landlord come for overdue rent.”

— Kathy Reichs

82. “The air’s okay,” Jake.”

— Kathy Reichs

83. “You’d be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.”

— Kathy Reichs

84. “I’d smelled my moonshine sweetheart and seen his light in the eyes around me. I’d loved it once. Hell, I loved it still. But the enchantment would destruct. For me, any trifling dalliance and the affair would consume and overpower. So I’d walked away from it, with twelve slow steps. And I had stayed away. Having been lovers, we could never be friends. Tonight we’d almost been thrown into each other’s arms.”

— Kathy Reichs

85. “He’ll have nightmares about Kit diving for his knees,” Hi added. “I’m pretty sure that was an illegal tackle. Chop block. Something.”

— Kathy Reichs

86. “Bones okay?” Kit slouched, feet propped on the coffee table. “That’s fine.” We watched in silence, side by side, occasionally chuckling at some of the jokes. I.”

— Kathy Reichs

87. “You’re the coolest thing alive,” Hi breathed, as close to the bonewhite reptile as he dared. “Don’t let anyone tell you different.”

— Kathy Reichs

88. “Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey’s taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner.”

— Kathy Reichs

89. “Ideas come easily to me, enacting them comes harder. I usually let things go. Perhaps it’s an escape hatch, my way of allowing myself to double back and ease out the side door on a lot of my schemes. Irresolute about my social life, obsessive in my work.”

— Kathy Reichs

90. “Will you talk to me.”

— Kathy Reichs

91. “Is that what we are?” Shelton smiled. “A pack?” “Of course,” Hi said. “A pack with superpowers. And a dark secret.”

— Kathy Reichs

92. “America was armed to the teeth and no one was safe.”

— Kathy Reichs

93. “We staying out here today?” Hi rubbed his chin as if considering the proposition, his Bolton Prep blazer flipped inside-out with the lining exposed. “Mr. Terenzoni might not be willing to yell his lesson plan out the window.”

— Kathy Reichs

94. “Those who shouldn’t are often those who most willingly flaunt it.”

— Kathy Reichs

95. “You can’t walk the last hundred yards, too marshy-mushy. Not that you’d want to. Gator country. Snap, Snap.”

— Kathy Reichs

96. “We spoke some, moving our mouths, forming words, saying nothing. Mostly we sat. It wasn’t the comfortable silence of old friends accustomed to each other, but a dialogue of uneasiness.”

— Kathy Reichs