Lullaby Town Quotes

“Because of the wind, the crows were pointing in one direction but traveling in another. I wondered if they knew it, and, knowing it, understood it, or if they were simply oblivious, carried along by a force that was felt but not seen. The same thing happens to people, but most of the time they don't know it, or when they know it, they think it an action of their own devising. They are usually wrong.”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town

“Poitras came”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town

“was an”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town

“walked to the Museum of Modern Art on 53rd. They call it MoMA for short, which is dumb, but they had Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night, which is anything but. Score one for New York. I had always wanted to see it, and now sat for the better part of an hour staring into its depths and textures. Pike said, “I know how he felt.” “They say he was mad.” Pike shrugged.”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town

“I went out to the parking lot and stood by my car beneath a sky that had grown heavy and dense and the color of shale. There was a cold wind coming from the northwest and a formation of large black crows beating their wings a hundred feet overhead. Because of the wind, the crows were pointing in one direction but traveling in another. I wondered if they knew it, and, knowing it, understood it, or if they were simply oblivious, carried along by a force that was felt but not seen. The same thing happens to people, but most of the time they don’t know it, or when they know it, they think it an action of their own devising. They are usually wrong.”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town

“Because of the wind, the crows were pointing in one direction but traveling in another. I wondered if they knew it, and, knowing it, understood it, or if they were simply oblivious, carried along by a force that was felt but not seen. The same thing happens to people, but most of the time they don’t know it, or when they know it, they think it an action of their own devising. They are usually wrong.”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town

“You're still you. You're vice-president of the bank. You're twice president of the PTA. You're a Rotarian and a member of the Library Committee. Maybe, without having gone through what you went through with Peter, you wouldn't be any of those things. Maybe you would be less.”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town

“I asked Pike, “Are you afraid?” He shook his head. “Would you be afraid at midnight if we were alone?” He walked a moment. “I have the capacity for great violence.”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town

“Pike chambered a round into his shotgun. “No,” he said. “They’re trapped with us.”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town

“both Neptune and Pluto were predicted long before they had ever been seen because of peculiarities in the orbits of the other outer planets. It made me think that planets weren’t so very different from people. Seeing what happened around them was enough to tell you where they were and what they were.”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town

“The zen of housecleaning allows one to reach inner peace.”
― Robert Crais, Lullaby Town