A Tap on the Window Quotes

“Technology allowed us to share our photos with more people now than ever before, but where would these captured moments in time be in twenty years? On some outdated piece of hardware at the bottom of a landfill site? What happened to memories you couldn’t hold between your thumb and forefinger?”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“auburn in color, and a little too much”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“I’m afraid . . . I feel like it’s wrong to be happy. That if we’re ever good, if we’re ever happy again, it’s some kind of betrayal.”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“I don’t know if there’s anyone I’m not mad at,” I said, and watched her face fall ever so slightly. “But you’re far from the top of the list.” I paused. “That’s where I am.”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“I hadn’t voted for him, but I hadn’t voted for anyone, in any election, in years. After a while, you stop wanting to reward liars. They’re all liars.”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“Am I going to be punished?” “You have been already,” I said. “For the wrong things, for the wrong reasons.” “I don’t understand, Dad.” “Me, neither,” I said. “Me, neither.”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“Sometimes doing the right thing hurts.” I paused. “Sometimes, doing the right thing is not always worth doing. It’s hard to be right all the time. It’s not an easy way to live your life.”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“You don’t spend twenty years with someone and not know when they’re really sleeping, and when they’re trying to put one over on you. But never mind. It wasn’t like I’d ever call her on it. It was a game we played now. I’ll pretend to be sleeping so you don’t have to feel weird not talking to me.”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“He’d always been looking for a way to fit in, yet couldn’t turn himself into somebody he wasn’t to do it.”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“I found it increasingly difficult to concentrate. I had diagnosed myself with something I’d coined PT-ADD. Post-traumatic attention deficit disorder. I couldn’t focus because there was always just one thing on my mind. I managed to do my job, more or less, but it was always there, white noise in the background.”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“seconds, then”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“Sometimes, doing the right thing is not always worth doing. It’s hard to be right all the time. It’s not an easy way to live your life.”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“to view a larger image. When I found”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“whose profiles I could access. If Scott”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“Sanders?” I asked.”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“his dress pants rested on black socks”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“blue Lexus were parked in the double”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window

“corner of a table. Kinda smarts.” She brought”
― Linwood Barclay, A Tap on the Window