“Your library is your portrait.”
―
Linda Fairstein,
Lethal Legacy
“I've just been around too much death today not to wonder why we find it appropriate to organize our festivities in and around the tombs of all these ancient cultures.” ― Linda Fairstein, The Bone Vault
“I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.” ― Linda Fairstein, Final Jeopardy
“Listen, Mike, I don’t know what happens in parochial schools—most of the guys survive the nuns and come out with a sense of humor—some a little more tasteful than yours, but humor nonetheless. This guy came out like Mother Superior himself, with a stick up his ass that should have punctured his brain by now” ― Linda Fairstein, Final Jeopardy
“You’ve been in more hotel rooms, Coop, than Gideon’s Bible,” ― Linda Fairstein, Killer Look
“Good girls keep diaries; bad girls don’t have the time.’ Tallulah Bankhead, by the way.” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“You can keep the harasser a certain number of feet away from the victim’s front door, order him not to enter her workplace, and demand that his calls and letters cease, but once she’s an open target walking in a public space or street or subway, the thin sheet of paper handed to her by a judge as an order of the court is as worthless as Confederate currency. The criminal justice system is far more capable of dealing with murder than with harassment, though the line that divides them is often deceptively slim.” ― Linda Fairstein, Final Jeopardy
“Stabbings, shooting, rapes, homicides -- the denizens of places like the Elk brought those crimes along with them the way ordinary travelers carried luggage.” ― Linda Fairstein, Death Dance
“The truth is so rare, Alex. I like to use it sparingly” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“Mike ignored me and walked off. I understood the dynamic and knew that, as close as the three of us were, I was an outsider in these circumstances. The fraternity of police officers who put their lives on the line every day for the rest of us circles the wagons pretty tightly when one of their own is harmed” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“I'm telling you, the lunatics are really running the asylum when it comes to the criminal courts” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“Maybe Chapman wasn't entirely crazy - live fast, die young, and be a good-looking corpse” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“The Internet was creating more opportunities for perverts than most of us had imagined, and law enforcement agencies were less aggressive than the cyber-geeks in coming up with solutions” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“There were days when my colleagues and I were sure there was nothing left that one human being could do to another that could shock us. And then, without fail, something else came along to prove us wrong” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“Fat people are harder to kidnap...You never read in the paper that the victim of an abduction weighed in at three-fifty. They're always skinny broads like you who get carted away. It's simply a fact.” ― Linda Fairstein, Entombed
“If his happiness were my goal, Mike, I would have gone to clown school, you know?” ― Linda Fairstein, Hell Gate
“Lanny Bellin, Daniel’s stepfather.” ― Linda Fairstein, Silent Mercy
“There isn't anyone in the business," he went on, "who hasn't been accused of selling a forged piece, by accident or design, over the years. And then there's the current brouhaha in the auction houses, with the government charging sellers with rigging the bids to knock up the prices. On the surface, gentlemen, it's a world of exquisite beauty and refinement. But it's every bit as filthy and cutthroat as any other commercial enterprise, as soon as you get beneath the top layer of gouache” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“Me, I always thought the international art world was for the elegant and elite. Classy, calm, sedate, cultured, I'm tellin' you, there are more lowlifes in this business than all the Hannibal Lecter wanna-bes in the world.” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“I've just been around too much death today not to wonder why we find it appropriate to organize our festivities in and around the tombs of all these ancient cultures.” ― Linda Fairstein, The Bone Vault
“I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.” ― Linda Fairstein, Final Jeopardy
“Listen, Mike, I don’t know what happens in parochial schools—most of the guys survive the nuns and come out with a sense of humor—some a little more tasteful than yours, but humor nonetheless. This guy came out like Mother Superior himself, with a stick up his ass that should have punctured his brain by now” ― Linda Fairstein, Final Jeopardy
“You’ve been in more hotel rooms, Coop, than Gideon’s Bible,” ― Linda Fairstein, Killer Look
“Good girls keep diaries; bad girls don’t have the time.’ Tallulah Bankhead, by the way.” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“You can keep the harasser a certain number of feet away from the victim’s front door, order him not to enter her workplace, and demand that his calls and letters cease, but once she’s an open target walking in a public space or street or subway, the thin sheet of paper handed to her by a judge as an order of the court is as worthless as Confederate currency. The criminal justice system is far more capable of dealing with murder than with harassment, though the line that divides them is often deceptively slim.” ― Linda Fairstein, Final Jeopardy
“Stabbings, shooting, rapes, homicides -- the denizens of places like the Elk brought those crimes along with them the way ordinary travelers carried luggage.” ― Linda Fairstein, Death Dance
“The truth is so rare, Alex. I like to use it sparingly” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“Mike ignored me and walked off. I understood the dynamic and knew that, as close as the three of us were, I was an outsider in these circumstances. The fraternity of police officers who put their lives on the line every day for the rest of us circles the wagons pretty tightly when one of their own is harmed” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“I'm telling you, the lunatics are really running the asylum when it comes to the criminal courts” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“Maybe Chapman wasn't entirely crazy - live fast, die young, and be a good-looking corpse” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“The Internet was creating more opportunities for perverts than most of us had imagined, and law enforcement agencies were less aggressive than the cyber-geeks in coming up with solutions” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“There were days when my colleagues and I were sure there was nothing left that one human being could do to another that could shock us. And then, without fail, something else came along to prove us wrong” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“Fat people are harder to kidnap...You never read in the paper that the victim of an abduction weighed in at three-fifty. They're always skinny broads like you who get carted away. It's simply a fact.” ― Linda Fairstein, Entombed
“If his happiness were my goal, Mike, I would have gone to clown school, you know?” ― Linda Fairstein, Hell Gate
“Lanny Bellin, Daniel’s stepfather.” ― Linda Fairstein, Silent Mercy
“There isn't anyone in the business," he went on, "who hasn't been accused of selling a forged piece, by accident or design, over the years. And then there's the current brouhaha in the auction houses, with the government charging sellers with rigging the bids to knock up the prices. On the surface, gentlemen, it's a world of exquisite beauty and refinement. But it's every bit as filthy and cutthroat as any other commercial enterprise, as soon as you get beneath the top layer of gouache” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
“Me, I always thought the international art world was for the elegant and elite. Classy, calm, sedate, cultured, I'm tellin' you, there are more lowlifes in this business than all the Hannibal Lecter wanna-bes in the world.” ― Linda Fairstein, Cold Hit
