Investigations Quotes

“In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.”
― Eoin Colfer, Half Moon Investigations

“I'd have your back off-site too, if you'd let me." ~Cain, Ghost of You”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of You

“Admiral McPhearson put his arms around Anderson and hugged him. At that moment, admiral and lieutenant became father and son.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

“We have to report this."

Kai sighed deeply in relief. "I was afraid you were going to say that we had to investigate it ourselves."

"Don't be ridiculous," Irene said briskly. "We may collect fiction, but we are not required to imitate the stupider parts of it.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

“Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. 'The detective story,' observed Raymond Chandler in 1949, 'is a tragedy with a happy ending.' A storybook detective starts by confronting us with a murder and ends by absolving us of it. He clears us of guilt. He relieves us of uncertainty. He removes us from the presence of death.”
― Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

“They look at you odd. They say why don’t you do something? I HAVE done everything possible. It does occupy your mind, but like anything painful, you push it to one side. It’s in the bottom compartment; it comes out every so often. If I knew he was dead, I could grieve.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“So, everything that’s happened, that’s just the way life is, and it’s never going to be the way you think you want it. I’m not embarrassed about my brother, but I just don’t want to relive it, because people ask, “Oh, where’s your brother, what’s he doing?” and I have to say I don’t know, I haven’t seen him in over 30 years.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me. Neither dog nor man liked the look of my stick, however, and the matter fell through. Relations were strained after that, and further inquiries out of the question.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“Sometimes as a family we don’t like to talk about it because all this stuff is going through our heads about what could have happened to him. It upsets us because we didn’t want him to suffer. We just want to be told, you know, he died…”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“She asked me for some advice regarding Mark’s financial affairs. It’s a very common problem for the families of missing persons – what happens when someone disappears? How long do you wait before you clean out their flat? Do you reregister their car? Who keeps paying the car payments? How do
you access their bank account? What about rent and mortgage? When do you tell their employer you don’t think they’re coming back to their job?”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“Reverend Don Marxhausen disagreed with all the riffs on Satan. He saw two boys with hate in their eyes and assault weapons in their hands. He saw a society that needed to figure out how and why - fast. Blaming Satan was just letting them off easy, he felt, and copping out on our responsibility to investigate. The "end of days" fantasy was even more infuriating.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

“ ‘Having a missing brother has made me far more compassionate. It’s really sad that we haven’t had an answer, that we don’t know, but there’s still that vestige of hope, if you haven’t heard anything. But it’s a painful bit of luggage to carry around with you.’.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“We have to report this."

Kai sighed deeply in relief. "I was afraid you were going to say that we had to investigate it ourselves.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

“My brother, when he went to sleep, always put his shoes beside the swag, and when he got up in the morning the first thing he did was put his shoes on. He did that ever since he was little. And he never went anywhere without his hat. So, for him to walk off up the road without his hat or his shoes, that’s just straight-up lies. No. I know that for a fact.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“...you cannot enter into an investigation with a philosophy that dictates the outcome. Objectivity is paramount; this is the first principle of detective work that each of us must learn. It sounds simple, but our presuppositions are sometimes hidden in a way that makes them hard to uncover and recognize.”
― J Warner Wallace

“when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our lives, we shall always be uncertain with the life we live”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“When radio keeps silent, our ears shall never hear the real details!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Just because nothing shakes loose from the web, doesn't mean the spider went hungry.”
― D.M. Timney

“People seize to investigate the truth when things are been repeated constantly.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Speculation is the prequel to all whom accept to have to be misled"
"Vince L. DeSalvo”
― Vince L. DeSalvo

“Police investigations is often times where Good and evil collide.”
― William R, Ablan

“Truths can be controversial.”
― Heidi Chance