Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

Who the hell do you think did it, Martians?

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime.

I have this particular shoe with blood stains, marked all up sitting in my office. I always look at it everyday.

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

You want to know what happened? YOU happened Rush. That's what happened.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame.

What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays.

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

I think it is absolutely reprehensible to believe that any member of this House, Democrat or Republican, would want to do anything that would jeopardize the ability to find out exactly what happened leading up to hurricane Katrina and exactly what happened in the aftermath.

there's plenty of blame to go around.