“I thought you make your living as a thief." "No," he said. "That’s what I do for fun.” — Chris Pavone Life Copy Share Image
“It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“But quitting didn't change what she'd already done. The piece of her past that she'd never be able to outrun.” — Chris Pavone Change Copy Share Image
Everyone has secrets, and I think some people flee from home - far from home - to try to keep those secrets. — Chris Pavone Home Copy Share Image
“A waiter visited to find out if everything was okay. A preposterous question.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“She understood that he had to work, and he had to travel. But what he didn't have to do was be absent… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the… — Chris Pavone Being Copy Share Image
“Even if they'd known that an attack had just been struck by one of their parents, they'd also have known that it… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“It would make a lot more sense if she had imagined this whole thing, her whole life. Now would just be now,… — Chris Pavone Heart Copy Share Image
“They were ticking off items on a to-do list that was magnet-attached to the fridge. There were nineteen items on the list.… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“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… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I know that 'The Accident' is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly… — Chris Pavone Accident Copy Share Image
What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“Because she'd once made a horrible decision that would haunt her forever, and because the one person in the world she'd trusted… — Chris Pavone Lying Copy Share Image
“People will think we're having an affair," Kate said. She took a seat next to Bill on the cold slats of treated… — Chris Pavone Affair Copy Share Image
There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“This was a bizarre moment: this crossing-over from a hypothetical plan to a concrete caper, giving in to what may turn out… — Chris Pavone Reasonable doubt Copy Share Image
“You talking about computer weaknesses?" "Yes. But also human weaknesses." "Meaning what?" "Meaning the types of weaknesses that make humans let down… — Chris Pavone Computers Copy Share Image
“Plus she had to admit that a small part of her secrecy was that she was holding something back, for herself. If… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
As a book editor, you need to pitch every one of your books again and again, dozens of times, for months on… — Chris Pavone Books Copy Share Image
“What she did know, unfortunately, was that she had to reconsider everything she'd ever willed herself to believe about her husband.” — Chris Pavone Marriage Copy Share Image
I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“The embarrassment that you weren't independent, your decisions not your own to make.” — Chris Pavone Embarrassment Copy Share Image
“For the first time in memory, the silence between them wasn’t filled with layers upon layers of lies.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“Whatever her husband had done, it couldn't be as bad as what she herself had done.” — Chris Pavone Heart Copy Share Image
“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 Loneliness Copy Share Image
“After all, she herself had done the very worst thing imaginable. And she was a good person. Wasn’t she?” — Chris Pavone Good person Copy Share Image
“She stared at this first bit of positive proof, the entrance to the rabbit hole from which she might never reemerge.” — Chris Pavone Heart Copy Share Image
Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2. — Chris Pavone Book Copy Share Image
“But Kate was wide awake, chased by the same demon that haunted her regularly, especially when she was trying to forget it.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“Back before her life had begun to unravel. Or before she knew it was unraveling.” — Chris Pavone Heart Copy Share Image
“People who were too outgoing made her suspicious. She couldn't help but presume that all the loud noise was created to hide… — Chris Pavone Heart Copy Share Image
“I was young, and I was damaged, and I couldn’t imagine being not young, and not damaged.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“She began to sacrifice that old identity to live in her new one. It was the new life, after all, that everyone… — Chris Pavone Life Copy Share Image
“I don’t want you to explain. I want you to convince me I’m wrong. Or admit I’m right.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do. — Chris Pavone City Copy Share Image
“On the semi-frozen river below, a duck quacked insistently, sounding like a grumpy old man agruing with a cashier.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“So my sister, she slipped through the cracks of the disaster of our family. She became her own disaster.” — Chris Pavone Family Copy Share Image
“It hadn't taken very long to come clean, after so many years of so many lies. It was surprising how undifferent she… — Chris Pavone Lies Copy Share Image
“But she was still operating on lonely-person principles, still worried that her happiness could be wrenched away at any moment, for reasons… — Chris Pavone Happiness Copy Share Image
