Robert Crais Quotes

First irate Russian thugs, now irate federal cops. Maybe Rod Serling was next.

For the longest time, Mimi Warren did not move, then she looked at me and said, I don’t feel anything. I said, Kid, you’ve had so much done to you that the part that feels went dead a long time ago. M...

I’m required to read this admonition. Your silence can be deemed as insubordination and lead to administrative discipline, which could result in your discharge or removal from office. You understand w...

These dogs are not machines, Goddammit. They are alive! They are living, feeling, warm-blooded creatures of God, and they will love you with all their hearts! They will love you when your wives and hu...

That’s the way adults often talk to children. You know they’re not going to listen, but you want to tell them anyway just so you know that you have.

I opened the material I had about Amy Breslyn and studied her picture again. She didn’t look like a person who would embezzle four hundred sixty thousand dollars, but people can fool you. She looked l...

The neighbor’s dog burst into frenzied barking. Devon jumped so hard, she clutched the door. Toby was a big dog with a loud bark. He sounded right outside the window, crazy loud snarling barks like he...

Men like Neff and Hensman lived between raindrops and worked under eaves.

He snuggled closer, spooning into her back, both of them staring at nothing. Jack wondered what she was seeing. Krista

Her face was focused and contained, as if she was concentrating on something more important than answering the door. She was slight, with dark eyes, a thin face, and prominent ears. She was wearing de...

Scott walked away and did not look back. They knew Maggie would try to follow him, and she did. In her world, they were a pack, and the pack stayed together.Maggie whined and barked, and he heard her...

How many warnings do you need before we charge you with felony stupid? Evanski

Tyson’s mother worked as an office manager for a law firm in Encino. She appeared neat, trim, and ready for work when she opened the door, but carried herself with so much tension she might have been...

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I don’t get the new shoe business. You walk around, step on stuff, the heel gets nicked, the sole picks up dings and cuts. A pattern develops, right? It’s called a Schallamach pattern. And since no tw...

A short, slight gentleman was standing in the living room. He had wavy marcelled hair and he was wearing a brown summer-weight suit that had probably been new twenty years ago. His hair was more gray...

That’s right. He was tied in with a boy down there about the time of the murders. Wasn’t enough money up here for him in hijacking; he wanted to bring in drugs, so he worked out something with a—lemme...

I stood with Sherman, watching them go, and wondered at Jonathan Green’s lack of concern. I was thinking that maybe he was crazy, or arrogant, or brimming with the fatal flaw of hubris, but you never...

Mrs. Bartello opened the screen wider, her eyes bunching with sorrow. I’m sorry. You don’t know. I’m sorry. Donna passed away. Holman felt himself slow as if he had been drugged; as if his heart and b...

Still, people sometimes do strange things for strange reasons, and I decided to see what Mrs. Louise Earle had to offer. I expected that she would support her son’s claims, but in the doing perhaps sh...