154 quotes found
Writer · American · 1974
American writer (born 1974)
“I know. I'm sorry." And the bizarre part is that I really am. I want to be good, to use the right fork and wear a pretty linen dress to breakfast. I want to be the girl in the pictures upstairs. Bu...”
“No! I need to go home," I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.”
“Did you see Grace is back with us?"Megan did see me. She saw me jump off a cliff and crawl under an Iranian fence. Megan has seen plenty. And I can't help but hold my breath, waiting on her answer....”
“Ok," he says. "First lesson."Noah broadens his stance, taking his place firmly on the embassy side of the threshold. "in the United States," he says. Then, with both feet, he leaps on to the sidewa...”
“I can sleep anywhere. Planes. Trains. Sofa. Lawn chairs. Call it the upside to my life as an army brat. Never having a home means, I guess, that everywhere is your home. There is absolutely no plac...”
“My name is Cammie!” I didn’t think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that might have gone off. I just snapped, “How did you know about Boston? Why are you working with Mr. Sol...”
“But guilt isn't smart. It isn't logical. It doesn't only live in the places it belongs.”
“Honor is overrated.”
“She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for.”
“Count me in, Kat." He squeezed her tighter. "You should always count me in." - W. W. Hale the Fifth”
“She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.”
“I don't understand boys.”
“Its Vermeer"Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen""What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied the painting over her shoulder. "I met a very nice man who bet me he ...”
“I sprung you because I've got a message for you""doesn't your family own a cell phone company?""only a little one”
