The Disappeared Quotes

“Twilight in the mountains brought a special kind of cold. It crept out from the darkness of the lodgepole pine forest where it had spent the daylight hours and it slithered across the top of the snow to sting every inch of exposed human skin. Sounds became sharper and the snow itself became a different texture that squeaked like nails on a chalkboard with every footfall.”
― C.J. Box, The Disappeared

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
― C.J. Box, The Disappeared

“up’ is from when a bird has eaten too much of his kill and doesn’t want to hunt or do anything for a while,” she said. “And ‘under my thumb’ and ‘wrapped around his little finger’ are from holding a falcon tight to your fist by its jesses so it can’t fly. Those terms were in Shakespeare’s plays and until then they weren’t common usage.”
― C.J. Box, The Disappeared

“He ain’t gettin’ nowhere and he’s losin’ his share, He must have gone crazy out there.—Michael Burton, “Night Rider’s Lament”
― C.J. Box, The Disappeared

“fucking”
― C.J. Box, The Disappeared

“Trump-voting”
― C.J. Box, The Disappeared

“ALLERGIES: Ex-husband and Donald Trump”
― C.J. Box, The Disappeared