“Creighton tried to smile again. The result fit him like panty hose on a mastiff.”

“Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann”

“His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)”

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”

“All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.”

“Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.”

“Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.”