Quotes from Edna.....
 
"The person most likely to murder you sits across the breakfast table.  Your nearest and dearest, the one who sleeps on the pillow next to yours and shares your checking account, can be far more lethal than any sinister stranger lurking in the shadows.  Love kills." - quote from Never Let Them See You Cry, chapter 3.

"As I child, I loved to read Sherlock Holmes and Albert Payson Terhune who wrote books about animals. I am an animal lover anyway. I love short stories too."

"Friends are the family you choose for yourself."

"On a bad day, exhausted by constant battles with the outside world on the streets and the inside world of editors who suffer from itchy cursor fingers, a good story will still banish the blues, the headache, that tired run-down feeling. Slumped and weary, yearning to go home, feverish and weak from the flu, desperate to escape, my mind an overloaded computer about to crash, I can feel the adrenaline pump and the brain cells kick back into life if somebody dangles something resembling a good story. The blood starts to tingle, the curiosity begins to pique. It is a lifelong addiction."

"True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway."

"Unsolved murders are unfinished stories ... The face of Miami changes so quickly, but the dead stay that way. I feel haunted by the restless souls of those who walk free."

"Police officers' lives are 99 percent boredom and 1 percent panic, excitement, and confusion."

"People ask if I am callous and cold after years on the police beat. Quite the contrary. You cannot grow calluses on your heart.  If I have become anything, it is more sensitive, because I now know the truth: The victim will most likely be victimized again, by the system. How can I do this job year after year? they ask. Why would I want to? The question always surprises me. How could I not do it?  Sometimes, we are all the victim has got.  Sometimes you feel like Wonder Woman, or Superman, going to the rescue. Reporters can find missing kids, lost grandmothers, and misplaced corpses. We fish out people who fall through the cracks. Publicity rescues people tangled in the hopeless mazes of government and bureaucracy. We recover stolen cars and priceless family heirlooms. A story in the newspaper can secure donations of blood, money, and public support -- and occasionally that rarest gift of all: justice." - quote from Never Let Them See You Cry, chapter 1.

"I'll take a case, fictionalize it, build on it, and then solve it.  And it's nice to have a little closure, when in real life you don't."

"I knew what they meant, but pretended not to.  How do you select the major murder of the day?  Every murder is major to the victim.  They all wanted to live." - Ms. Buchanan's comments on the editors telling her to cover only the major murders in Miami.

"Nobody loves a police reporter. The job can be lonely and arduous. I have been threatened with arrest, threatened physically, had rocks thrown at me. I've gotten threatening letters, subpoenas, and obscene phone calls, some of them from my editors. It is tiring, haunting, and truly wonderful."