“If anyone ever tells you that violence won't make you feel better, they're lying.” — Hajime Kanzaka Copy Share Image
“You are from Belfast; are you sure that was your first time holding a gun?” — Neil Walker Copy Share Image
I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it. — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Don't steal, don't lie, don't cheat, don't sell drugs. The government hates competition. — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Free yourself from the prisons of your past or you're going to serve the rest of your life in that miserable place. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men. — C.L. Bryant Copy Share Image
“She was one of six people accused of the murder, five of hom took pleas; to had internalised their guilt so deeply… — The New Yorker Magazine Copy Share Image
I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's… — Ice T Copy Share Image
If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
“I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Two boys who looked to be seven years old had been picked up while sweeping floors in a cheap hotel. They reminded… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Me, I always wanted frost power.” “Frost power?” “Yeah.” Seth gestured dramatically toward my coffee table. “If we’re talking superhero abilities. If… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image