Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms.” “Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village.

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Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

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insult dignity humans

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

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valuable experience mistake

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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degrees dna school

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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blow hair morning

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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writing book thinking

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

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

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outrage activism able

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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cities sports kids

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

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shocked capacity lost

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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violence soul humanity

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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gender bones stories

High school popularity is so fickle.

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fickle high-school school

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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charity events three

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

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murder-mysteries mystery fun

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

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uncertainty indecision keys

I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

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bones north-carolina police

An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps

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nerd elites

Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat.

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kitchen ice blue

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

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Today he wore a burnt-orange shirt, black pants, and a tie that looked like a street fight at the south end of the color wheel.

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orange color fighting