X Quotes
"There was nothing fair and square about a cheating husband who’d boffed her best friend."
"Life’s cheaters are everywhere and my mission is to eradicate the lot of them."
"I’m passionate about all manner of criminals: killers, thieves, and mountebanks, the pursuit of whom I find both engaging and entertaining."
"True, I could have covered my expenses for months to come with enough in reserve for a lavish trip abroad, except for the following impediments: 1. I’m miserly and cheap."
"My prime talent is snooping, which sometimes includes a touch of breaking and entering."
"The righteous are struck down while the sticky-fingered escape."
"I didn’t give the question credence. At my age, retirement is out of the question, and even temporary idleness would have driven me insane."
"I anticipated due process, but the sniveling little shit burst into tears, claiming I’d stolen it from her."
"Self-employment is a mixed bag. The upside is freedom. The downside is uncertainty."
"I hadn’t seen her since Pete died and I thought it’d be nice to get away."
"Might," he said. "My house and yard are small, so I was hoping to minimize the cost, but there’s no point in building a system that doesn’t do the job."
"How do," she said. "I heard voices and wondered if there was a problem."
"Our water bill’s been going up. I wish someone had told us how expensive it is living here. It’s been a shock."
"I make a game of it, seeing how much I can save from week to week."
"Sometimes I serve chili with chopped onions over corn bread as our main meal of the day."
"So-called ‘land of plenty,’ and here you have little kids and old folks going hungry. It’s not right."
"If you need to go to the market, I’ll be happy to give you a lift the next time I go," Henry said.
"You just stay where you are. I’m not letting you out," Henry said.
"I wasn’t even halfway through the process when a piece of folded graph paper fell out."
"I couldn’t imagine what it was, but I assumed the data was significant, or why would he have hidden it?"
"Try looking at it from where I stand," she said.
"What loomed large in my mind’s eye was the vision of the specialty of the house: a sandwich made with spicy salami and melted pepper jack cheese, topped with a fried egg."
"It was always possible she’d left for the day, but surely she’d have locked the front door."
"The notion was like someone knocking at a distant door."
"I had to ask myself what the hell was going on, and the only answer I could think of was someone was in here and listened to them first."
"I’m trying to construct an explanation for all the bits and pieces."
"I can’t believe you’d ask. I don’t lie to people."
"Well, it’s not a problem. I’ll make my peace with it. End of story."
"He offered and I couldn’t bring myself to refuse."
"The practice of baring all, analyzing every nuance embedded in a quarrel, is a surefire way to keep an argument alive."
"It wasn’t true. He didn’t even work there full-time. He did occasional contract work."
"Marriage is a sacrament. Lennie’s mother was furious she’d gotten pregnant to begin with and scandalized when she talked about leaving him."
"He cultivated friendships with many of the officers and he was generous with his donations to their foundation."
"Sometimes he got in a rage and destroyed things."
"You can talk about Greed or Pride being wrong, but it doesn’t mean much to children."
"Eternal damnation’s an abstract, so what do they care?"
"Suicide’s a mortal sin. If she’d killed herself, she’d be condemning her own soul to Hell."
"Water flows. Water goes. The drought’s come around again and the water’s gone."
"Land don’t hardly rise unless an earthquake buckles her in two."
"I’m teaching them about the Seven Deadly Sins. The two older ones are too busy to visit, so I’m having to focus on the little ones."
"All of the edge pieces were in place and she’d completed certain areas along the left-hand side, including a naked fellow, impaled on a stick, being roasted over an open fire."
"I’m assuming she sent you these items because she wanted April to have her confirmation Bible and her rosary."
"Memory is subject to a filtering process that we don’t always recognize and can’t always control. We remember what we can bear and we block what we cannot."
"Shall I tell you the secret? You don’t do anything else."
"I felt great about being home until I rounded the corner of the studio."
"The presence of the fur ball was icing on the cake."
"Everything felt like forever. Love, betrayal, impossible crushes, breakups, jealousies, and yearnings."
"I wondered what I would have thought of him if I’d gone to high school with him myself."
"What must she have thought when the semi-attractive Ned suddenly turned his phony smile on her?"
"Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint."
"I believe she was worried the mailer might be returned to the sender. Sometimes the post office does that for no apparent reason. She didn’t want it to show up at the house again."
"Possibly because your father wasn’t Catholic and she didn’t want him to know she was giving you items of religious significance. This is just a guess."
"You can’t live in a place where there’s so much pain. You have to push it down and put a lid on it; otherwise you’d be overwhelmed."
"People tell me I’m way too picky, so perhaps I’m the wrong one to ask."
"You can’t make someone else do anything, even if you know you’re right."
"I don’t know if I believe or not. There was one occasion when I was convinced there was a ‘presence,’ for lack of a better word, but my saying so doesn’t mean it’s true."
"I never know what to make of conversations like this."
"I can’t take the chance that I’ll be off somewhere. Minute my back is turned, she’ll get in high gear. I come back, half the stuff’ll be gone."
"She didn’t want to fit in. She didn’t want to adapt. She wanted to go back to Detroit where she knew she was accepted for who she was."
"The trick was to look abject and give a lengthy explanation for the infraction, which might or might not be true."
"Resistance only fueled the lecture, encouraging the adult-types to pontificate."
"Every afternoon, they repaired to Poppy’s house, ostensibly to study, but actually to smoke dope and raid Poppy’s parents’ liquor cabinet."
"It was as though both had been deposited by spacecraft, leaving the mystified earthlings to raise them as best they could."
"She relished the feeling of being unleashed, free to act on impulse, doing whatever occurred to her."
"In terms of schoolwork, Poppy’s done okay so far, but she’s faltering."
"Odd how fate is so often embedded in the aftermath of a simple conversation."