Robert Crais Quotes

I know why you didn’t get the money. I was wondering how much sixteen million dollars weighs. I can tell you exactly. Bank gets hit, they tell us how many of each denomination was lost. Tally that up,...

I left my car in the garage, then followed the guard’s directions past a Spanish tile fountain in the lobby to the elevators, and then to the top floor. Another blazered gentleman smiled at me in the...

I left my car on the street, walked up across the dead yard, and a guy I took to be James Lester opened the door. He was average-sized in dark gray cotton work pants, dirty white socks, and a dingy un...

I looked like an ad for Banana Republic. Maybe Banana Republic would give me a job. They could put my picture in their little catalog and under it they could say: Elvis Cole, famous detective, outfitt...

I parked in the basement, then took an elevator to the lobby where I went through a metal detector and gave my name to a guy who looked like he ate a Pontiac for breakfast. Then I took another elevato...

I put everything back into the envelope, then called my friend Eddie Ditko at the Examiner. Eddie has been a reporter for about ten million years, and he answered with a voice that was maybe three wee...

I put my Corvette in the carport, and met him at the kitchen door. Pike said, Nice eye. No hello, no hey, are you all right? Clark do that? You can always count on your friends for humor.

I put out my hand. Harlan Green. He waved the cowboy toward me without shaking. He’s going to check you. You know what to do? I know. I stood with my feet apart and arms out. The wand looked like the...

I put the Corvette in its spot in the parking garage and rode up in the elevator and went into my office and closed the door. There was a message on my answering machine from someone looking for Bob,...

I read the file, Meryl. Her corporate biography makes a big deal out of her experience. Double- and triple-based composite fuels. Slurries, gels, and castable propellants. Plasticized accelerants. I h...

If a zombie appeared, Daniel planned to jump out the window after it and rip its putrid, unnatural flesh to pieces with his teeth. He was, after all, a werewolf, which was why he was such a good hunte...

Kara Sykes held the door. That’s fine. You’ll go on in a few minutes, so we don’t have much time. Please come this way. We followed her down a long hall, then through a newsroom filled with desks and...

Pike said, What’s wrong? His name isn’t Haines. It’s Hewitt, and he isn’t just your ordinary junkie. He’s on the run from the Russian mob, he used to be in the federal witness protection program, and...

Scott clipped the lead to Maggie’s collar, and paused beside the car to let her look around. He thought she might have to pee, so he took her on a short walk. Scott let her set the pace, and sniff tre...

Thanks, Lyle. It’s good to be here. Mr. Sincerity.

We saw the new gymnasium and the new science labs and the newly expanded library and the new theater arts building and a lot of coeds with moussed hair and bright plastic hair clips and skin cancer ta...

When long-term convicts were first released they often experienced a form of agoraphobia—a fear of open spaces. The prison counselors had a special name for this type of agoraphobia when they attribut...

With her sunglasses off, her eyes were red, and Cole wondered if she had been crying. She caught him looking, and flashed the crooked smile. It was smart and inviting, and could never be made by someo...

As much as I’d like to lick chocolate syrup off your body, I want you to shut up.

Cat came toward him, paced away, then returned. Its dark face was as fierce as a Maori. The fur on its spine was spiked like a Mohawk warrior. Pike