They're Watching Quotes

“I think of heroes as ordinary people who decide to give a damn about what they do, not what they might get.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“Not the smoking. The ritual. Tapping down the pack, my silver lighter, a smoke in the morning, in the car, with a cup of coffee. There was something so soothing about it. Knowing you could count on it. It was always there.” She ground out the cigarette”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“More and more I think of heroes as ordinary people who decide to give a damn about what they do”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“This is where quiet horrors happened—every day in perfectly nice neighborhoods like this one”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“keep finding I’m not cynical enough to live in this country.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“There is no greater power—not bombs, not laws, not parliaments—no greater power than picking up the phone and having the right person on the other end.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“The Los Angeles Basin, cooler in all regards and eager to point that out, dips south, pushing west until ever-pricier real estate terminates in a throw of sand and the polluted Pacific. A glamorous road befitting a glamorous city, temptation and danger at every turn. It lures you to take in the view but never stops twisting. You fix on the pretty lights until you plummet to your death—L.A. in a nutshell.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“It’s all fucked up, Patrick. You know that. The dream is never the dream. It’s a bunch of compromises and, if you’re lucky, a few decent people now and then.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“I slid down next to her. Moonlight, even through the cinched blinds, bathed our sheets in a pale glow. Ariana lay on her stomach, facing me as I was facing her. The line where her skin met the mattress perfectly halved her face. My hand was out, palm flat, before my cheek. Hers beside mine. We stared at each other, two parts of a whole. I could feel her breath on my face. I took her in. Right here, in front of me. The nearest beating heart this night and nearly every other for the past eleven years. Those dark curls, climbing the pillow she’d shoved up against the headboard. Etched at the edge of her eye, premonitions of crow’s-feet. I’d watched them creep into existence these past few years, and I owned them as much as she did, owned the hurt and laughter and life that had gone into them. I wanted to be with her to see them deepen, and now I could no longer take for granted that I’d get to. She blinked long, and then again, and her eyes stayed shut. I cleared my throat. “In good times and in bad.” She put her hand over mine, mumbled, “For better or worse.” I thought, Until we are parted by death.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“They talk about it like it’s all jukebox slow dances and sweaty lovemaking and princess-cut diamonds. But sometimes it’s just your wife sitting frog style on the kitchen floor after a workout, looking for an omelet pan.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“The dream is never the dream. It’s a bunch of compromises and, if you’re lucky, a few decent people now and then.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“Her hand rooted in her purse and produced a roll of Tums. That purse was like the stomach of Jaws—she was always pulling out a pair of sunglasses, a new shade of lipstick, a waffle iron.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel