Catherine Ryan Howard QUOTES

21 " San Francisco could lay claim to the highest rate of vehicle break-ins and burglaries in the whole of the United States. Now here she was in a little Irish country town where the word crime only had to stretch to cover incidents of public drunkenness and drink-driving, and she was being raped by a masked man in her own bed. "

― Catherine Ryan Howard , The Nothing Man

23 " You know what’s funny?’ He laughed now, a soulless, mechanical sound. ‘All this time, I’m sitting here thinking that I hurt you, and it turns out that you fucking did this to me.’ His face crumpled. ‘You did this to me. I loved you and you’re the one who did this to me … "

― Catherine Ryan Howard , The Liar's Girl

25 " You open your door one evening to find a uniformed police officer standing outside. Nothing’s wrong, don’t worry. This is just a courtesy call. There’s been a burglary in the area and they’re just letting you know so your home isn’t next. Lock your doors and windows. Keep valuables out of view. Think about installing an alarm. You chat for a few minutes. You might mention the door at the back that doesn’t lock. Or that fact that you live here alone. Or that the couple who owns this construction site is living here while the work goes on—or, well, one of them is, because her husband is going back to San Francisco for a few weeks next week. Maybe you don’t reveal any information, but while you speak he’s still gathering it. The integrity of the front-door lock. The layout of the ground floor. Whether or not he likes the look of you. If he’d like to do to you what he’s already done to the others. That’s how he was choosing them, we felt sure. Donning a Garda uniform and doing door-to-door calls in the aftermath of a real burglary. But was he really a guard? Neither Tom nor Johnnie could remember seeing a Garda car, and we thought it would be relatively easy to convince a member of the public that you were wearing a Garda uniform when in actual fact you were wearing an approximation of one. He could’ve also easily gotten hold of a real uniform—if he was prepared to murder innocent people, he was probably willing to steal items of clothing too. Moreover this behavior would have been an incredible risk for a serving member to take, when one phone call to the local station would’ve been all it took to bring his little rogue scouting missions crashing down. "

― Catherine Ryan Howard , The Nothing Man

27 " The only way you can lose your own shadow is to stand in the dark. The problem is, Oliver hates the dark. "

― Catherine Ryan Howard , 56 Days

29 " It’s when you have a friend,’ Amanda said, ‘who is really nice, like, most of the time, but then they’ll suddenly say something mean or rude, like a little jab, a little sting, and then they just carry on as if nothing has happened and you’re left there thinking, Did something just happen or am I imagining it? Didn’t you ever see Bridget Jones? "

― Catherine Ryan Howard , The Liar's Girl

31 " The tote is blue and has a space shuttle on it, piggybacking on an airplane as it flies over the skyscrapers of Manhattan. She lifts the bag and looks at it, then back at him. “Thanks,” she says. “It’s from the Intrepid. It’s a museum in— "

― Catherine Ryan Howard , 56 Days

33 " The Nothing Man was back in the news and bringing a different kind of enthusiast to Covent Court: the true-crime tourist. "

― Catherine Ryan Howard , The Nothing Man

35 " And I actually think that’s probably not that unusual a reaction. I mean, that’s why cars slow down when they’re passing a traffic accident, right? Or why people watch true-crime documentaries, or read books about Ted Bundy. This stuff is, in a weird way, exciting. Right?’ ‘You think that’s what Liz is?’ I said. ‘Excited? "

― Catherine Ryan Howard , The Liar's Girl