Kathy Reichs Quotes

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• I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

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  "Face to face with death" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

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  Mistake, Experience, Valuable

  Kathy Reichs (2015). “Grave Secrets”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

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  Dignity, Insult, Humans

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

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  Soul, Humanity, Violence

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• My line of work makes you aware of the fragility of life. You can get up in the morning, eat your cornflakes, blow-dry your hair, go to work and end up dead.

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  Morning, Blow, Hair

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• Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

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  Stories, Bones, Gender

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• If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

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  School, Dna, Degrees

  "Bones Inspiration Kathy Reichs Writes Episode 5.20 The Witch in the Wardrobe". Interview with Alan Orange, tvweb.com. May 4, 2010.

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• Indecision is the key to flexibility.

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  Keys, Indecision, Uncertainty

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

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  Able, Outrage, Activism

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• I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

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  Lost, Capacity, Shocked

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• Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

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  Ideas, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.125, Penguin

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• An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps

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  Nerd, Elites

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.36, Penguin

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• High school popularity is so fickle.

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  School, High School, Fickle

  Kathy Reichs (2013). “Code: A Virals Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

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  Fun, Murder Mysteries, Mystery

  "Face to face with death" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2006.

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• You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the Eiffel Tower at night, being chased by ninja vampires

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  Night, Talking, Vampire

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• As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!

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  Pirate, Fencing, Instructors

  Kathy Reichs (2011). “Seizure: A Virals Novel”, p.54, Penguin

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• Let's do it. Monkeys are always funny. You pretty much can't go wrong with a monkey, right? Hi paused. Well unless that monkey wants you dead, or does needle drugs or something. Then it's wrong, and a bad monkey.

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  Drug, Doe, Want

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.26, Penguin

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• People love to hate the gravedigger.

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  Hate, People, Love Hate

  "Meet The Brains Behind "Bones"". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.

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• God help anyone who messes with the Virals!

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  Helping, Mess, God Help

  "Virals". Book by Kathy Reichs, November 2, 2010.

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• We did just leave an insane asylum,” Hi agreed. “For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada.

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  Night, Dancing, Insane

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• 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.

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  Sports, Kids, Cities

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• I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.

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  Events, Three, Charity

  Kathy Reichs (2011). “Seizure: A Virals Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

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  What If, Enough, Packs

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• Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

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  White, Tuxedos, Tails

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