Robert Crais

There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.

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.

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

People want you to be ordinary.

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

When you see someone, all you see is what they let you see.

fficiency and focus are the keys to success.

Criminals did not have friends. They had associates, suppliers, fences, whores, sugar daddies, enablers, dealers, collaborators, co-conspirators, victims and bosses, any of whom they might rat out and none of whom could be trusted.