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61 " It would make a lot more sense if she had imagined this whole thing, her whole life. Now would just be now, attached to some other, more straightforward past. "
― Chris Pavone , The Expats (Kate Moore, #1)
62 " Malcolm gestures in the vague direction of ugly sad lonely crap, which as it happens is toward Times Square. "
― Chris Pavone , The Travelers
63 " 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. "
64 " Dexter was too legit,” Julia continued. “His life was too verifiable, too aboveboard. He was nobody’s spy, nobody’s mole, nobody’s rat. He was who he is. And he didn’t know that you weren’t. "
65 " She knows that one of the most dangerous, self-destructive indulgences is to go around proving how smart you are. It’s the type of thing that gets people shot. "
66 " But there’s this giant deception at the foundation of their relationship, their happiness. This impure motive. There was that small mistake that the woman made, uttering the wrong number. And then the man reconstructed an entire intrigue, a big thick plot— a seduction and affair and relationship and marriage proposal, a whole life— around her error and his notice of it. Taking advantage of her lie.But does that make their relationship less real? Does that make it impossible that they genuinely love each other? "
67 " You can’t have the money.” Kate says. The dark red wine has already spread through the cloth, tendrils reaching out through the fibers from the pool. That same pattern, again. “But if you move fast, you can have your freedom. "
68 " Kate had always known that she herself was a strong woman. But it never occured to her that there were strong women everywhere, living mundane lives that didnt include carrying weapons amid desperate men on the fringes of third-world wars, but instead calmly taking injured children to hospitals, far from home. Far from their mothers, and fathers and siblings, from school chums and old collegues. In a place where they had no one to rely on except them-selves, for everything. "
― Chris Pavone
69 " This woman is American, but she speaks with no regional accent. She could be from anywhere. She could be anyone. "
70 " It hasn't taken long to find herself thinking that people are watching. And that they always have been, all the time. It was only a few months ago that Kate had finally been able to imagine she was living a totally surveillance-free life. "
71 " You're going to make a lot of money? In Luxembourg?""Yes.""How?""They have a shortage of great-looking men. So they're going to pay me a bucket-load for being incredibly handsome and staggeringly sexy. "
72 " That was the secret to maintaining lies: not trying to hide them. "
73 " Things always end more suddenly than expected. "
74 " She was seduced by the romance of it; she was energized by the possibilities. "
75 " She spent so much of her new life wanting to get a break from the kids, then the rest of her time impatient to get back to them. "
76 " The new man was again staring at her, staring at him, challenging her, knowing that she was considering him, wanting her to know that he was considering her. She couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to be with a man who absolutely didn't need her, but merely wanted her. "
77 " On the semi-frozen river below, a duck quacked insistently, sounding like a grumpy old man agruing with a cashier. "
78 " Royalty. Very different from merely rich. "
79 " Even if they'd known that an attack had just been struck by one of their parents, they'd also have known that it wasn't their battle. "
80 " They were ticking off items on a to-do list that was magnet-attached to the fridge. There were nineteen items on the list. They'd crossed off fifteen. The final item was underlined: Make a life. "