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

- Kathy Reichs

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

- Kathy Reichs

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…

- Kathy Reichs

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

- Kathy Reichs

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

- Kathy Reichs

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

- Kathy Reichs

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

- Kathy Reichs

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…

- Kathy Reichs

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