Out of Sight Quotes

“Well, does it make sense to you?"
He said, "It doesn't have to, it's something that happens. It's like seeing a person you never saw before - you could be passing on the street - and you look at each other..."
Karen was nodding. "You make eye contact without meaning to."
"And for a few moments," Foley said, "there's a kind of recognition. You look at each other and you know something."
"That no one else knows," Karen said. "You see it in their eyes."
"And the next moment the person's gone," Foley said, "and it's too late to do anything about it, but you remember it because it was right there and you let it go, and you think, What if I had stopped and said something? It might happen only a few times in your life."
"Or once," Karen said.”
― Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight

“the one they used to call Club Fed. No fence, no guys with shanks or razor blades stuck in toothbrush handles. The worst that could happen to you, some guy hits you over the head with a tennis racquet.”
― Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight

“Every drive that stayed on the fairway, every chip to the green, his specialty, any long putts that dropped in—his Jack Daniel’s on the rocks next to him. He exaggerated, he even cheated . . . But he knew how to find people; it was his business. Karen turned to the sink. Should she do the dishes?”
― Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight

“I’d personally cuff his hands behind his back. And I’d make sure he hit his head getting in the police car.”
― Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight

“stared at it a few moments thinking it should be turned around, lead with The bigger the sacrifice”
― Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight

“It’s not that cold. You know what you do? Relax your body. Don’t hunch up, swing your arms, keep your blood moving and it doesn’t seem as cold.”
― Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight

“streets”
― Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight

“Karen, you fuck up and I get sent to White Fang, Alaska as resident agent . . .”
― Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight