Wrong Place Wrong Time Quotes
"The world seems to stop turning just for a second and, in the quiet and the stillness, Jen thinks: Kelly looks how it is to be heartbroken."
"The universe agrees with her, it begins to rain as she’s finishing her fifth cigarette."
"She extends the knife out to Todd. He doesn’t take it."
"Jen wishes Kelly would show the outside world this side of him."
"First rule of the job: almost all 999 calls are boring or involve idiots. Usually both."
"He has the pink, bruised face of an alcoholic but a lithe body."
"It turns out, later, that his name is Daniel, not Sandy."
"She can’t resist, they get greedy, play the lottery, kill Hitler."
"She’s sure he started it, and he’s sure she did."
"All I know so far is that nothing has worked."
"The universe," she says, and he laughs, a noise so perfect to her it may as well be music.
"It’s theoretically possible for you to have somehow created such a force."
"Physics aside, the obvious answer would be that you will reach the inception of the crime."
"You have the knowledge – and the love – to stop a crime?"
"I’d kill him myself, this Joseph, if I could get away with it."
"We don’t know," he says. "Science is much more of an art than you’d think."
"That’s all any of us is doing, only in the other direction," he says.
"It’s amazing," she says after a few minutes. Todd blinks in surprise, and that blink – it cracks her heart open just a little.
"I love you, I love you, I love you," she thinks as she catches it.
"Everything you do is interesting to me," she says, tears springing with the kind of reckless fatalism of somebody who won’t be here tomorrow.
"I have never loved anybody as much as I love you. Never will," she says plainly, her eyes wet.
"Coppers, when it comes down to it, can be pretty neatly divided into two types: those who can kill when they need to, and those who can’t."
"It invades your life, gear, doesn’t it? I was curious. In the end, I was fucking cutting it with him."
"Don’t use words you don’t know the meaning of," Todd says, coming over to ruffle her hair.
"If I say something – will you trust me on it?" Kelly says. "Do not look into that baby."
"How could you not know?" Joseph cocks his head to the side. "Even I thought you knew."
"Ask me what we did," Joseph murmurs. "Burglaries. Supply. Assaults. That’s what we did."
"It never goes the way you’d expect, you know?" Todd says, unable to keep still.
"I’ll get it wrong. Maybe just a B," he ponders, yet his mother knows he gets an A.
"Time is just a way of us thinking we are free agents."
"The emotions of living something the first time prevent us from seeing the true picture."
"Everything in parenthood feels so endless until it ceases."
"The shame of it, of not falling head over heels for your baby, who arrived in your life like a detonated grenade."
"Some days are brighter than others, more memorable."
"We only think of the bad things that happen, rather than those that, through fortune, pass us by."
"Confusion blended with amusement: he is all Todd."
"She’s so far back now, an arrow aimed at the future: the slightest, slightest tweak, and she will miss."
"He doesn’t know her. She is seeing wary Kelly, the way he greets strangers."
"Curiosity gets the better of him. 'How did you know?'"
"She didn’t play the lottery. She didn’t even save her father, not this time."
"And everything that has been is wiped, just as she suspected."
"He’s a policeman. Jen closes her eyes in pleasure. He will be happier."
"The baby. The stolen baby that was never stolen."
"She has denied him his first love. Is that a price worth paying, too?"
"I want to write a book like Russian Doll but about knife crime."
"Nobody enjoys a two-minute walk to run an errand more than her."
"Everything about his body language says that he has a problem with the world."
"The back of her neck shivers with something more than just anxiety."