Edna Buchanan Quotes

• Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

  Edna Buchanan

  Friendship, Family, Choosing Friends

  "Now we can all play happy 'framilies'" by Nicole Mowbray, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2006.

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• True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

  Edna Buchanan

  Friendship, Relationship, Falling In Love

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• Friends are family you choose.

  Edna Buchanan

  You Choose

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• To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

  Edna Buchanan

  Daughter, Editors, Names

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

  Edna Buchanan

  Normal, Knows, Seems

  Edna Buchanan (2005). “Shadows: A Novel”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Men give love because they want sex. Women give sex because they want love. That's the difference between men and women. Ever notice how when we talk about our love lives, it's always about a man? Singular. All most of us want is one good man. But when men talk, it's about women. Plural. They want as many as they can get.

  Edna Buchanan

  Sex, Love Life, Love Is

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• Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.

  Edna Buchanan

  Blow, Differences, Mind

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• A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

  Edna Buchanan

  Florida, Cities, Roots

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

  Edna Buchanan

  Long, Water, Needs

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• Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.

  Edna Buchanan

  Sex, Jail, People

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

  Edna Buchanan

  Moving, Past, Target

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• Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

  Edna Buchanan

  Children, Book, Writing

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• In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

  Edna Buchanan

  Law, Justice, People

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• I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

  Edna Buchanan

  Editors, Three, Never Trust

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a death-defying experience.

  Edna Buchanan

  Life Is, Defying

  Edna Buchanan (2014). “The Britt Montero Series (Omnibus Edition)”, p.618, Diversion Books

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• If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

  Edna Buchanan

  Luck, Bad Luck, Ifs

  Edna Buchanan (2003). “The Ice Maiden”, Center Point Pub

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• Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

  Edna Buchanan

  Love Is, People, Brave

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• Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.

  Edna Buchanan

  Needs, Therapists, These Days

  Edna Buchanan (2014). “The Britt Montero Series (Omnibus Edition)”, p.1443, Diversion Books

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• You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

  Edna Buchanan

  Family, Brain, Trying

  Edna Buchanan (2014). “Act of Betrayal: A Britt Montero Mystery - Book Four”, p.193, Diversion Books

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• Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.

  Edna Buchanan

  Eye, Gun, No Friends

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• ... I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.

  Edna Buchanan

  Sex, War, Conscientious Objectors

  Edna Buchanan (2014). “Never Let Them See You Cry”, p.53, Diversion Books

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