Robert Crais Quotes

Solitude was a spell that freed her.

The attendant smiled a goodbye at the door. You look much better. I’ve achieved a measure of peace with my uncertainty.

Stepping into the apartment was like entering a furnace. Pike began sweating. They were in a cramped living room. As

Scott was feeling a little better. Whatever you say. I say. And if the DNA matches Daryl to the band, we have something to chase, which is all thanks to you. The

A cop shouted our location to the people on the road. Krantz wasn’t holding a gun, but his eyes were on Pike as if he were a down-range target. I expected him to start with our rights, or tell us we w...

They led me across the commissary and along a short hall into the next building. The skinhead was named Royce, and Royce liked to bitch. He and most of the other guards had arrived yesterday, and didn...

There was nothing. Did you look for oil drips? Cole said it just like that, without accusation, and Chen felt himself darken. What do you mean? The Lake Hollywood report mentions oil drips that you fo...

POLLARD HAD NEVER been good in the morning. Every morning for as long as she could remember—months, maybe years—she woke feeling depleted, and dreading the pain of beginning her day. She drank two cup...

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things...

The backseat was even worse. Taco wrappers, drive-thru cups, and greasy napkins covered the floor. I dug through most of it, but the only evidence I found was evidence of tooth decay. Tyson was an eat...

THE CHOKE HOLD cut off blood to a man’s brain, putting him to sleep like a laptop when its battery is low. It was an effective way to subdue a person, though sometimes that person did not wake up. Pik...

She stepped away and considered the couch. First we have to get this house in order. Would you please move the couch again? I stared at the couch. I had moved it maybe eight hundred times in the last...

Is Dolan there? What’s it to you? I want to talk to her. Haven’t seen her. You wanna know what I heard Krantz say? I’m not going to like this, am I? Krantz says you were probably in on it with that ba...

She told herself it was the dry night wind and lashing hair, the way her eyes filled when her lonely race finished, but it was always the same whether the air was dry or not, whether her hair was down...

In fact, it wasn’t evidence at all, but I didn’t want to be a defeatist.

Seven hundred fifty thousand dollars in cash didn’t take up much room. It could be packed in four shoe boxes, and fit in a single grocery bag. Walsh carried the money in a gym bag slung over her shoul...

Jack met Kwan’s eyes, glanced away, then looked back. Jack nodded once, kind of like saying hi, but Kwan did not respond. His lean face was all planes and angles, and as warm as a granite mask. He als...

The arrows. What they mean is, you control who you are by moving forward, never back; you move forward. That’s what I do. That’s what we’re going to do.

Sometimes. Sometimes you can change what’s there, sometimes what’s there changes you.

Stephanie was still holding his hand, and Scott was wondering what she meant by it when an enormous Bentley sedan appeared at the end of the street, as out of place in this neighborhood as a flying ca...