I've never lost my capacity to be shocked. Kathy Reichs More Quotes by Kathy Reichs More Quotes From Kathy Reichs Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity. Kathy Reichs insult dignity humans Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them. Kathy Reichs 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. Kathy Reichs 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. Kathy Reichs 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. Kathy Reichs writing book thinking Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies? Kathy Reichs brilliant-ideas brilliant ideas Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do. Kathy Reichs 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. Kathy Reichs cities sports kids 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. Kathy Reichs violence soul humanity Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background. Kathy Reichs gender bones stories High school popularity is so fickle. Kathy Reichs 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. Kathy Reichs charity events three Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve. Kathy Reichs murder-mysteries mystery fun Indecision is the key to flexibility. Kathy Reichs 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. Kathy Reichs bones north-carolina police An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps Kathy Reichs 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. Kathy Reichs kitchen ice blue I work with the dead, but I am working for the living. Kathy Reichs 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. Kathy Reichs orange color fighting As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword! Kathy Reichs fencing instructors pirate
