The Travelers Quotes

“Malcolm gestures in the vague direction of ugly sad lonely crap, which as it happens is toward Times Square.”
― Chris Pavone, The Travelers

“For a long time she thought of life as an accumulation of experiences, but recently she’s realized that it’s also the opposite: a narrowing. Living the same day, over and over.”
― Chris Pavone, The Travelers

“This is what travel is for: dipping your toes into unfamiliar waters, seeing if it suits.”
― Chris Pavone, The Travelers

“There’s always charm to faded glory, but also the melancholy of a moment past, a perfection irretrievably lost.”
― Chris Pavone, The Travelers

“My grandparents were born in Puerto Rico and Guyana and the D.R. and Rhode Island. Their parents were from Norway and India and West Africa and Italy, plus God only knows what combination of bloods native to the Caribbean and central America.... I have no idea how to answer the White-Black-Hispanic-Other question. I am postracial, like the ethnically indeterminate Jessicas Alba and Biel, or Vin Diesel, or the Rock”
― Chris Pavone, The Travelers

“Malcolm pours a scotch, takes a slug, deposits the tumbler on the coffee table. Then he reconsiders, finds a coaster, even though the liquid is room-temperature and the table is glass, and there's no possibility of condensation damage. But Allison is a coaster fanatic, and he doesn't need to go out of his way to drive his wife nuts; she's more than capable of piloting herself to that destination all on her own.”
― Chris Pavone, The Travelers