“How could I tell Clarence that finding another dead body was anything but dreadful? On the contrary: it was thrilling; it was… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“He runs his eye along the row of knives in their racks, the cleavers for splitting bones. He picks one up, looks… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The blood dried on his good hand, he passed his palm over her hair. It curled about his wrist and sprung back… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
“In a whodunnit, when a detective hears that Sir Somebody Smith has been stabbed thirty-six times on a train or decapitated, they… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
“Hawksmoor had often noticed how, in the moments when he first carne upon a corpse, all the objects around it wavered for… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcraft trials in Salem… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“Vomit began to spill out of me like pea soup, splattering the road with champagne and caviar, long island iced teas, of… — Keira D. Skye Copy Share Image
“He scraped through the dark sand to the center house, two stories, both pouring bands of light into the fog. There was… — Dorothy B. Hughes Copy Share Image
“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The first time I came to the Comedy Festival some nutcase shot a bunch of people in Tasmania. I thought, 'Oh, that's… — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also… — Leslie Morgan Steiner Copy Share Image
Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“[At the scene of a murder] The cats' bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made them. They were hunters,… — Shirley Rousseau Murphy Copy Share Image
What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in… — Kim Rossmo Copy Share Image
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I mean, doesn’t it seem like it could have been two people? Somehow? Michelle’s murder was just—Your mom and Debby were like,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in… — Gerald Kaufman Copy Share Image
All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
“You understand nothing," I told him with a weary shake of the head, but I would not try to make him understand.… — Krisi Keley Copy Share Image
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Here, supposing that neither Harry Perkins nor the servants nor some outsider called ‘X’ had killed Stephen Anthony, was a murderer. He… — Richard Lockridge Copy Share Image