Before He Finds Her Quotes

“these next few hours, it’ll raise the odds that we’re both”
― Michael Kardos, Before He Finds Her

“Because that’s how witness protection works. It’s for people who have been involved in criminal activity. So they’ll be safe to testify in court.” “Then they made an exception for me.” The detective shook her head. “And they never relocate people to somewhere they once lived. It’s always somewhere brand-new.” She tilted her head. “You’re sure it was witness protection and not some other program, maybe?”
― Michael Kardos, Before He Finds Her

“The officer had made her nervous at first, but that word the doctor had used—safe house—had made her stomach burn. She was through with hiding.”
― Michael Kardos, Before He Finds Her

“What’s that?” “Places where women can go and live for a while to get away from . . . whoever it is they fear.” The doctor eyed Melanie as if they both understood. “The woman can feel safe, knowing she can’t be found.”
― Michael Kardos, Before He Finds Her

“Ramsey tried a ritual that suited him better: one drink whenever he drank, and no more. If that didn’t work, he’d try something else.”
― Michael Kardos, Before He Finds Her

“Eric still put a dollar into a shoe box every day that went by without him taking a drink.”
― Michael Kardos, Before He Finds Her

“how easy it would be to turn the car around, to find Phillip and tell him that, yes, squirrels were damn scary creatures, and let’s just hunker down in your bedroom and never leave.”
― Michael Kardos, Before He Finds Her

“The past was nothing but a fish straight out of the ocean—slippery, and never as pretty as you think.”
― Michael Kardos, Before He Finds Her

“What a shame that this time-honored industry is rapidly vanishing and becoming overrun by ideologues and illiterates. Our democracy requires better. But this is a problem for younger minds than mine to solve.”
― Michael Kardos, Before He Finds Her

“For obvious reasons, I hope this won’t be my last post. But if it is, it is. I’m 81, a ripe age by any measure. I suppose that no age ever feels old enough, but with my daily cigarettes (a habit I picked up almost seventy years ago) and, with the exception of my own tomatoes, the takeout-menu-diet of a lifelong bachelor, I know I’m lucky to have made it this far. I don’t regret never marrying or having children.”
― Michael Kardos, Before He Finds Her