A Cold Dark Place Quotes

“Tell me you aren’t as perfect as you seem, Alex.” “Not even close to perfect.” His blue-gray eyes darkened. “Not a complete asshole either.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“You’re a good man, Alex Parker.” He kissed the top of her head. “No. But you make me feel like I could be.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“I’ll be fine. Just maybe we shouldn’t talk about the possible rape and murder of my nine-year-old sister while we’re in a moving vehicle.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“Rather than chasing shadows, maybe a better tribute to her sister would have been to live a full and happy life.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“And that was the whole point of being a covert operative. Welcome to the dark side.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“He nodded. “It proves they meant something to us. That even years after losing them we still feel them. Here.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“Lindsey Keeble sang along to the radio, trying to pretend she wasn’t freaked out by the dark.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“and”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“Welcome to the team.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“We’re not dating, remember.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“That wasn’t the agreement, Senator. Mallory has nothing to do with our bargain.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“sneered. “I’ll repair the car and replace the suit but you are still an asshole.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“Part of her wanted to hang on tight and see where it led. The other part wanted time and space to try and figure out exactly what was happening. But if she’d learned anything over the years it was time and space didn’t always provide answers.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“Is this why you didn’t come for Thanksgiving?” She pointedly ignored his handshake and he moved his lips into a cold smile. Not good enough for her daughter—check. Not that he didn’t already know that.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“I don’t know whether to envy your parents or pity them.” His gaze raked her from head to toe, “On one hand they still have a kid who looks exactly like the one they lost. On the other, the constant reminder must have torn them inside out every single day.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“He helped stop monsters.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“Damn shoes. Damn dress. Damn perfect body and tragic eyes.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“She just needed a warm body. Any body. He could do that. He could be anybody—he just couldn’t be somebody.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“I know what I’m doing, Mr. Parker.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“Without the bargain he’d made he’d still be rotting in that North African jail with all the other vermin.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“The grimy edge of his reality bore down on him. He didn’t like lying, didn’t like killing. Didn’t like death. But he had no choice. When his debt was paid he’d move on and rebuild a life to be proud of. It the meantime, he owed five-hundred and forty-two days on his contract and had no right to be thinking about pretty women with sad amber eyes.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“It was her job to pay attention to detail.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“Martha Stewart”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“Believe it or not, Mal, this is a good friend of mine, Alex Parker. I asked him to attend a Counterintelligence Awareness Group briefing I organized so he could tell us about some of the latest internet security measures being developed in the private sector. He runs his own company in DC. Does a lot of government contracts. We served together in Afghanistan.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“It’s gonna make a great headline, ‘Senator’s daughter still searching for justice after all these years.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“The FBI had once estimated there were approximately two-hundred and fifty serial killers active in the US at any one time. Alex’s job was whittling that number down, one murderous asshole at a time.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“You’d think they’d never seen snow before.”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place

“His phone pinged. A text from Mallory. His pulse raced. So much for being the”
― Toni Anderson, A Cold Dark Place