“She was not in a position to complain about this life, not yet. Probably not ever.” — Chris Pavone Heart 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
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
“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
“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
“The second impediment was that she didn't want to acknowledge that part of her impetus to Internet stalking was a long habit… — Chris Pavone Habits Copy Share Image
“She needed friends, and a life, and this is how you acquired those things: by talking to strangers. Everyone was a stranger,… — Chris Pavone Friendship Copy Share Image
I'd had 12 different job titles in publishing before I typed 'The End' at the bottom of a manuscript page. I thought… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“This is how it happens: you spend your life reading, reading, and reading more, waiting, waiting, and waiting for something to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I'd sometimes go to Paris by myself - it was an easy two-hour train ride - to get a break from the… — Chris Pavone Big city Copy Share Image
“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… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“There was a guy with extra millions in the bank. And he spent all his free time, all his energy, spending his… — Chris Pavone Business Copy Share Image
Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted… — Chris Pavone Books 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
“Kate had always known that she herself was a strong woman. But it never occured to her that there were strong women… — Chris Pavone Children Copy Share Image
As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have… — Chris Pavone Accident 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“A liar doesn't want to think that other people are liars, because then the other people should suspect her of lying too,… — Chris Pavone Liar Copy Share Image
Expats are a self-selecting group of outgoing, confident people - if you're not those things, you probably don't choose this adventure -… — Chris Pavone Adventure Copy Share Image
