Top 27 Chris Pavone Quotes
#1. Back before her life had begun to unravel. Or before she knew it was unraveling.
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#2. But if you move fast, you can have your freedom.
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#3. People will think we're having an affair," Kate said. She took a seat next to Bill on the cold slats of treated wood.
"That would be better than the truth.
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#4. It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it's just a blink.
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#5. This he thinks is the secret to New York City's vast productivity: everyone works all the time to avoid facing their loneliness.
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#6. It was becoming difficult to separate her own decisions from those made by others, for her, on behalf of themselves.
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#8. Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place.
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#9. And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.
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#10. I don't want you to explain. I want you to convince me I'm wrong. Or admit I'm right.
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#12. A liar doesn't want to think that other people are liars, because then the other people should suspect her of lying too, because she is, and she'll get caught.
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#13. Kate was never going to understand the extent to which men were stupid.
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#14. The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.
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#15. People who were too outgoing made her suspicious. She couldn't help but presume that all the loud noise was created to hide quiet lies.
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#16. As they'd agreed the night before on their cold balcony, scripting out this dialog, there would be three large lies in this conversation. This was the first.
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#17. Circumstantial evidence may not be enough to convict. But it's almost always enough to reveal the truth. Isn't it?
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#18. Now that it was finally here, she wasn't surprised to find herself still reluctant to start it. Reluctant to end the part of her life when this conversation hadn't happened yet. Reluctant to find out what her life would look like after it.
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#19. Would they have a life together anymore, after tonight? Or was this it? The end?
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#20. You know what this means?
Everyone does, but nobody answers.
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#21. The two men maintain firm eye contact. A poker game, both of them bluffing. Or pretending to.
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#22. Kate was beginning to put distance between her sense of betrayal, her anger, and Dexter's behavior. She was beginning to take his side. Or at least beginning to be able to see things from it.
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#23. She knew what he was thinking: if she was asking questions like these, she was trying to understand. Trying to forgive him. He was right.
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#24. There was a guy with extra millions in the bank. And he spent all his free time, all his energy, spending his money. His cars, his houses, his vacations. Just like the rich bankers here in Luxembourg, whose business was making money and whose passion was spending it.
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#25. What do you do with children, all the time? In Washington, she'd had charge of the kids on weekends; preschools and the nanny had borne the brunt of the day-to-day child-care responsibilities. She'd wanted more time with the kids, then.
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#26. Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor.
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#27. Malcolm gestures in the vague direction of ugly sad lonely crap, which as it happens is toward Times Square.
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