Alex Finlay > Quotes

“[T]he truth of the matter was that it was rarely a stranger who killed you; it was usually someone you held dear. As Keller knew too well, the sheep spends its life worried about the wolf, only to be eaten by the farmer.”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“Nico's a good man, but like many men, he treats pregnant women like fragile flowers. They overlook the fact that, over the course of history, through famines, epidemics, and other extreme conditions, women survived longer and better than men. Having babies? A walk in the park next to what most men could endure. But whatever”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“There’s a quote she’s always loved. She can’t remember who said it. Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes. She decides she’s going to stand her ground even if her voice shakes.”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“People think I’m obsessed, that I’m crazy. That I’m selfish and a fool. But what would you do if your son was convicted for a crime he didn’t commit? If he was locked up for the rest of his life and you knew in your bones he was innocent? If your family was broken?

You have two choices when you’re confronted with your every last fear:

Give up or fight like hell.”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“You have two choices when you’re confronted with your every last fear:
Give up or fight like hell.”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“the sheep spends its life worried about the wolf, only to be eaten by the farmer.”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“As Keller knew too well, the sheep spends its life worried about the wolf, only to be eaten by the farmer.”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“She’s a special person, Natalie. You have to be, to teach. Between the overbearing parents who all think their spawn are gifted, the administrators who’ve never spent a day in the classroom yet constantly change the curriculum, the politicians obsessed with what you can’t teach, and having a master’s degree but being micromanaged like teenage hourlies at McDonald’s.”
― Alex Finlay, What Have We Done

“It was always the affluent, the well-educated, who lawyered up—or in this case, parented up. They’d been exposed to lawyers, or studied Miranda in their AP Government classes, or had been schooled by America’s biggest educator on police procedure and the Bill of Rights, Law & Order.”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“I assume the FBI doesn’t send agents to extend thoughts and prayers, so what can I do for you, Special Agent Keller?”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“You ever watch the Spider-Man movie where three Spideys from different multiverses meet?” she asks the agent. He doesn’t respond. “Yeah, well…” Haley points to her sister, then herself. “Here’s the bad news: Both versions of us are evil.”
― Alex Finlay, What Have We Done

“All these years, he was a monster in plain sight”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“She studies Jesse. If she’s not guilty, she’s going to make one hell of a journalist someday. Ella also has a feeling that there is much more she doesn’t know about this girl. Things she may not want to know.”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“The elusive hunt for happiness," Matt said. God knows Matt had been on that pursuit for some time. Even before, he wouldn't say he'd been depressed or even sad. Despite the friction, he always knew his family loved him. He had close friends he cared about and who cared about him. He had, for all intents and purposes. a privileged life. But there was always this hollowed-out feeling in his chest he hadn't been able to shake since Year Zero”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“The ingenuity of criminals never ceases to amaze. It also dumbfounds her - why don't the smart ones take their talents and go legit?”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“He’s so tired of the drug war, which is really just a war on broken people, many who’ve suffered childhood trauma. Locking them up does nothing.”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“Keller thinks about this. It makes sense. A trauma survivor wanting to help other trauma survivors”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“He’s so tired of the drug war, which is really just a war on broken people, many who’ve suffered childhood trauma. Locking them up does nothing. Plenty of people in the system want to help. But his clients are like an army from a zombie movie. Help one, and a hundred more appear.”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“It's not like Phyllis to be at a loss for words. Her wealth has given her the confidence, no, the sense of entitlement to say whatever comes to mind, without filter”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“A good boss deletes annoyed messages before sending them”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“Beware the quiet man,” Reggie said, in a tone like a preacher, quoting from something Matt didn’t recognize. “For while others speak, he watches. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest, he strikes.”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“Often, those who seem like we should trust them, seem like they are leaders we should follow, are anything but.” The”
― Alex Finlay, If Something Happens to Me

“Evan had once read about dry drowning, a person slowly dying hours or even days after leaving the water. That's how he'd felt for the past seven years, oxygen slowly being stolen from his damaged insides”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“Climbing out of the car, she decides the fuck-me heels are a bit much. She reaches back for her gym bag, pulls out her sneakers.”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“But, looking at Atticus, the earnest detective who took a keen interest in the cold case on his own time, even before the ice cream store tragedy, Keller hopes she’s wrong.”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“You have two choices when you’re confronted with your every last fear:

Give up or fight like hell.”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“I just don’t get how you can like Shyamalan so much.” Matt smiled again. She had a point, since most of the NYU film school snobs looked down on M. Night Shyamalan. But Matt loved Shyamalan’s movies because they were grounded in destiny—the protagonists unaware that everything in their lives had led up to a moment; that everything suddenly made sense; that they had a purpose in the universe.”
― Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

“In the movies, the detectives always end up interviewing witnesses at a strip club, and it seemed like it would be pretty cool. But this is awful.”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“You don’t fuck around. I can count on one hand how many people would’ve had the stones to ask me that question.” “Hal, I didn’t mean to—” Hal holds up a hand. “Don’t you dare back down.”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift