Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2) QUOTES

1 " there was a quality of loneliness to her that comes when your only friend walks away and you don’t know why and there’s no one else and never will be. A left-behind look. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

2 " I’m a big brown mouse, I go marching through the house, and I’m not afraid of anything! I "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

3 " I looked like an ad for Banana Republic. Maybe Banana Republic would give me a job. They could put my picture in their little catalog and under it they could say: Elvis Cole, famous detective, outfitted for his latest adventure in rugged inner-city climes! "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

4 " Kerri turned each page slowly, lifting the next page and scanning the pictures "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

5 " Sometimes. Sometimes you can change what’s there, sometimes what’s there changes you. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

6 " She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn’t know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

7 " Jimmy smiled, wide and mindless, the way a pit bull smiles before he bites you. He said, “How about that, Terry. You think we got something as pussy as the mafia down here? "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

8 " Terry Ito had said Eddie Tang was on his way up. Maybe Eddie figured taking advantage of Mimi Warren and stealing the Hagakure were the keys to ascendancy. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

9 " Nobu Ishida had lived in an older split-level house on a Leave-It-to-Beaver street in Cheviot Hills, a couple of miles south of the Twentieth Century-Fox lot. It was dark, just after nine when we rolled past his home, rounded the block, and parked at the curb fifty yards up the street. Somewhere nearby, a dog barked. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

10 " I went back to the car. Pike said, “Just family, right?” “Or clever impersonators. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

11 " So. Ixnay on the direct approach. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

12 " There were dozens of boats and skiers on the water, the powerboats and jet skis buzzing like angry mutant wasps. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

13 " Some guys can charm the stitches off a baseball. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

14 " We saw the new gymnasium and the new science labs and the newly expanded library and the new theater arts building and a lot of coeds with moussed hair and bright plastic hair clips and skin cancer tans. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

15 " Traci Louise Fishman picked at the steering wheel some more, then gave me the Special Secret look again. Like there was something else I’d never heard before, and something Traci had never been able to tell, and now she wanted to. “You want me to tell you something really weird?” I looked at her. “Last year, we were up in my room, smoking. My room is on the second floor and in the back, so I can open the window and no one knows.” “Uh-huh.” “We were smoking and talking and Mimi said, ‘Watch this,’ and she pulled up her shirt and put the hot part of the cigarette on her stomach and held it there.” I sat in the Rabbit, listening to sixteen-year-old Traci Louise Fishman, and my back went cold. “It was so weird I couldn’t even say anything. I just watched, and it seemed like she held it there forever, and I yelled, ‘That’s crazy, Mimi, you’ll have a scar,’ and she said she didn’t care, and then she pushed down her pants and there were these two dark marks just above her hair down there and she said, ‘Pain gives us meaning, Traci,’ and then she took a real deep drag on the cigarette and got the tip glowing bright red and then she did it again.” Traci Louise Fishman’s eyes were round and bulging. She was scared, as if telling me these things she had been keeping secret for so long was in some way giving them reality for the first time, and the reality was a shameful, frightful thing. I ran my tongue across the backs of my teeth and thought about Mimi Warren and couldn’t shake the cold feeling. “Did she do things like that often? "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

16 " A left-behind look. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

17 " Maybe if I didn’t think about Mimi Warren or Traci Louise Fishman or Eddie Tang they would all disappear and living would be easy. Elvis Cole, Existential Detective. I liked that. Not thinking, properly done, creates a pleasant numbed sensation in the brain that I like a lot. There are women who will tell you that not thinking is one of my best things. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

18 " The living room walls were crowded with trophies for excellence in the martial arts. Hundreds of them. Gleaming first-place cups and championship belts from exhibitions and tournaments all over the United States. Best All-Around. In Recognition of Excellence. Black Belt Master. Over-All Champion. “Don’t worry about this stuff,” I said. “The guy probably bought’m.” Pike said, “Uh-huh. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

19 " I leaned against the fence and crossed my arms and stared at her. After a while she looked over and said, “Why are you staring at me?” “Because I am the Lord High Keeper of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong, and I am trying to figure out what to do.” She blinked at me. “Jiminy Cricket,” I said. “He was also Counselor in Moments of Temptation, and Guide Along the Straight and Narrow Path. You need that. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)

20 " You’ll notice,” Pike said, “that the only people in here who look like thugs are me and you.” “You, maybe. I look like Don Johnson. You look like Fred Flintstone. "

― Robert Crais , Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)