Pavone Quotes & Sayings

The two men maintain firm eye contact. A poker game, both of them bluffing. Or pretending to. — Chris Pavone

So tell me how you think this ends. — Chris Pavone

A liar doesn't want to think that other people are liars, because then the other people should suspect her of lying too, because she is, and she'll get caught. — Chris Pavone

Back before her life had begun to unravel. Or before she knew it was unraveling. — Chris Pavone

Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place. — Chris Pavone

But if you move fast, you can have your freedom. — Chris Pavone

This had been part of her training, part of her career, part of herself: whatever was going on, live like a normal person. Do normal things, see normal people. Don't give anyone a reason to question you, investigate you. Don't give them any meaningful answers to prying questions that might be asked after you've disappeared. Don't create any suspicion that you were not who you claimed to be. — Chris Pavone

Another of her husband's silent lies. — Chris Pavone

Now that it was finally here, she wasn't surprised to find herself still reluctant to start it. Reluctant to end the part of her life when this conversation hadn't happened yet. Reluctant to find out what her life would look like after it. — Chris Pavone

There was a guy with extra millions in the bank. And he spent all his free time, all his energy, spending his money. His cars, his houses, his vacations. Just like the rich bankers here in Luxembourg, whose business was making money and whose passion was spending it. — Chris Pavone

As they'd agreed the night before on their cold balcony, scripting out this dialog, there would be three large lies in this conversation. This was the first. — Chris Pavone

Malcolm gestures in the vague direction of ugly sad lonely crap, which as it happens is toward Times Square. — Chris Pavone

People will think we're having an affair," Kate said. She took a seat next to Bill on the cold slats of treated wood.
"That would be better than the truth. — Chris Pavone

It was becoming difficult to separate her own decisions from those made by others, for her, on behalf of themselves. — Chris Pavone

The People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, and that those who can't tell the difference don't belong in public office. — Frank Pavone

America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion. — Frank Pavone

Kate was never going to understand the extent to which men were stupid. — Chris Pavone

Circumstantial evidence may not be enough to convict. But it's almost always enough to reveal the truth. Isn't it? — Chris Pavone

The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx, or because agitators will come out of Russia, but because, after the war is over, that will be the only way they can turn. Everything else will have been tried, everything else will have failed. And I am afraid that American will be isolated, hated, backward, we will all be living there like old maids in a lonely house in the woods, locking the doors, looking under the beds, with a fortune in the mattress, not being able to sleep, because every time the wind blows and a floor creaks, we will think the murderers are breaking in to kill us and take our treasure ... — Irwin Shaw

Would they have a life together anymore, after tonight? Or was this it? The end? — Chris Pavone

America will never resist abortion until America sees abortion ... The pro-life movement is not primarily a response to Roe vs Wade. It is a response to Jesus Christ. — Frank Pavone

If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years. — Frank Pavone

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched. — Chris Pavone

This he thinks is the secret to New York City's vast productivity: everyone works all the time to avoid facing their loneliness. — Chris Pavone

Kate was beginning to put distance between her sense of betrayal, her anger, and Dexter's behavior. She was beginning to take his side. Or at least beginning to be able to see things from it. — Chris Pavone

This is the expat life: you never know when someone you see every day is going to disappear forever, instantly transmogrifying into a phantom. Before long you won't be able to remember her last name, the color of her eyes, the grades that her children were in. You can't imagine not seeing her tomorrow. You can't imagine you yourself being one of those people, someone who one day just vanishes. But you are. — Chris Pavone

You know what this means?
Everyone does, but nobody answers. — Chris Pavone

It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it's just a blink. — Chris Pavone

We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace. — Frank Pavone

She glances at each of her three companions, at the protective veneers they're all wearing, trying to mask the different lies they've told one another. The lies they're all continuing to try to maintain. Hoping these lies will carry them through the rest of their full and satisfying lives, despite the truths they've chosen not to tell the most important people in their worlds. — Chris Pavone

What do you do with children, all the time? In Washington, she'd had charge of the kids on weekends; preschools and the nanny had borne the brunt of the day-to-day child-care responsibilities. She'd wanted more time with the kids, then. — Chris Pavone

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform. — Frank Pavone

I don't want you to explain. I want you to convince me I'm wrong. Or admit I'm right. — Chris Pavone

And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together. — Chris Pavone

People who were too outgoing made her suspicious. She couldn't help but presume that all the loud noise was created to hide quiet lies. — Chris Pavone

She knew what he was thinking: if she was asking questions like these, she was trying to understand. Trying to forgive him. He was right. — Chris Pavone

Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor. — Chris Pavone