City of the Lost Quotes

“Absolutely alone in the dark. Every outside stimulus vanishes and there’s nothing except me in the darkness and the silence. I swear I can hear my thoughts. All my thoughts. And it’s horribly uncomfortable, and I want to switch on the light and say something and shove that aside. But the feeling passes in a few panicked heartbeats, and then … and then it’s indescribable. This is what I’ve been looking for in all those therapy sessions. Not a chance to tell someone my story. A chance to be alone with it. Utterly alone with it, and maybe that makes no sense, but it’s what I feel. Just me and that one defining moment in my past. Grief and rage and pain and guilt and clarity. Yes, clarity.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“Comfort and reassurance and a wordless understanding that there is always darkness. In some part of us, there is absolute darkness, as much as we wish otherwise. As much as we pretend otherwise. Anders shifts”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“I just want to tell my story. Because this is what I do. I play Russian roulette with Fate, knowing someday a therapist will break confidentiality and turn me in. It’s like when I was a child, weighed down by guilt over some wrongdoing but fearing the punishment too much to confess outright. I’d drop clues, reasoning that if I was meant to be caught, those hints would chamber the round. Magical, childish thinking, but it’s what I do now. I tell my story and reason that if I’m truly meant to be punished, a therapist will turn me in.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“If it's at first sight, what does that mean? Other than that you appreciate what you see? Better to fall for someone once you get to know him.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“I feel fine. Which is a lie, but I have a high pain threshold and low sitting-on-my-ass threshold.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“...I'm spending a lot of time with two guys, and no one wants to guess which I'm sleeping with and risk pissing off the other. Anders thinks it's hilarious. I find it amusing. Dalton has no idea it's even happening.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“Lots of women like the bad boys . . . then they realize Eric's not bad -- he's just cranky.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“In vino veritas.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“I'm never off duty. Not a whole lot to talk about. Weather maybe? It's getting cold. It'll keep getting colder. Then it'll snow."

[...] "I could ask what you think of the Jays' chances at the Super Bowl."

I laugh softly. "The Jays play baseball. The Super Bowl is football - and it's American."

"Huh. There goes that idea. Better stick to work. Go ahead.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“I don't give a shit what anyone thinks, Butler, in case that isn't perfectly clear by now. Whatever a guy from down south might expect of being asked into a woman's place. I'm not from down south. I figure you're offering me coffee because I walked you home and it's cold out and you'd feel rude turning me away at the door. To which I'd say that you worry too fucking much about being nice, especially to those who aren't particularly nice in return, but apparently you don't like me pointing out your faults.

Shocking, really, because most people love that.

[...] Well, the polite thing for me to do now would be to say no, I don't want a coffee. But I do, so you're going to have to make me one.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“An ex once said there was no use insulting me because nothing he could say was worse than what I already thought of myself.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“The rabbits, though? The rabbits haven't killed anyone." He pauses. "So far.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“Wherever you go, start over and do it right. Get a life, as the saying goes. Even if you don't hink you want one. You deserve it. I know you said I won't see you again, but if I do, I want to see you happy.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“You're gorgeous, Detective Duncan. Also? Shit at taking compliments.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“We hadn't had sex yet. I held him off by saying I was a virgin. That was a lie. I was just picky.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“I kept taking the meds when I knew better.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“the town—Rockton,”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost