The Night Watcher Quotes

“I’ve not been able to run the numbers yet. Dawson has me on a tight leash. I can barely piss without her watching over me.”
― Tariq Ashkanani, The Night Watcher

“Finish the sentence, Richard,’ Callie says coolly. She steps forward. Feels the old familiar heat flooding through her. ‘You ungrateful what? Bitch? Is that what I am? An ungrateful bitch? How about a mad cow, hmm? Or maybe I’m a silly, stupid cunt?”
― Tariq Ashkanani, The Night Watcher

“She told herself she was following her gut but her gut’s bruised and bloodied, and half filled with preconceptions and notions of payback.”
― Tariq Ashkanani, The Night Watcher

“With Callie, the only thing she’d ever been good at was surviving. An innate skill of being able to read someone and know instinctively whether to swing a punch or slip out of the room.”
― Tariq Ashkanani, The Night Watcher

“But eventually I stopped thinking about it.’ ‘Mind if I ask how?’ Mia smiles and turns away, looking back out the window. ‘You simply need to have worse scars somewhere else,’ she says.”
― Tariq Ashkanani, The Night Watcher

“Just because you’re not jamming a chair against your bedroom door every night doesn’t mean you have it easy. Pain is relative. It’s personal. It doesn’t like to be pinned down.”
― Tariq Ashkanani, The Night Watcher