Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place.

Chris Pavone

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It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it's just a blink.

Chris Pavone

Tags: youth insight



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On the semi-frozen river below, a duck quacked insistently, sounding like a grumpy old man agruing with a cashier.

Chris Pavone


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Grudges," she said, "are timeless.

Chris Pavone


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The second impediment was that she didn't want to acknowledge that part of her impetus to Internet stalking was a long habit of trusting no one. A habit whose genesis was the self-knowledge that she herself was untrustworthy.

Chris Pavone


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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.

Chris Pavone


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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


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Kate was never going to understand the extent to which men were stupid.

Chris Pavone

Tags: men stupidity



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She was picking a fight because it was Thanksgiving, and she was not thankful.

Chris Pavone


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Because when people are transferring millions of dollars, they don’t simply hit the Send button on their computer.

Chris Pavone


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