In Plain Sight Quotes

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go by any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material. —F. SCOTT FITZGERALD”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go by any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“to be followed by a second and then a third wave of clouds doing the same thing. There was something wildly adolescent about days like this, Joe thought, as if the atmosphere were supercharged with hormones and just didn’t know what in the hell to do next.”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“By late morning, Joe was cruising east on the state highway that bordered the Thunderhead Ranch all the way to the Bighorn Mountains. It was one of those schizophrenic spring/summer/winter May days when storm clouds shot across the sky in fast motion dumping both slashing rain and wet snow as if ditching their payloads in a panic, then darting away leaving sunshine and confusion, only”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“He always had a special relationship with his older daughter. Deep down, he thought it was still there. But they had to get through this early-teen thing. At the recent parent-teacher conference, Sheridan’s English teacher, Mrs. Gilbert, asked him and Marybeth if they knew what was worse than an eighth-grade girl. They shrugged, and the teacher said, “Nothing on earth.”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“the tendency to go native if you stay somewhere too long.”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“some had falled”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“from Brooklyn,”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“not actually shades of green. They had discussed the fact”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“the fight continued in the”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“more time away from the family and additional”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.   —WILLIAM RALPH INGE, OUTSPOKEN ESSAYS, 1922”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“Hide in plain sight, that was the way out here. He would learn something from that.”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“This is technical whitewater,” Nate said, looking out at the foamy white rooster-tails that burst angrily on the surface. Downstream was a series of massive rollers.”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“God, how sometimes he hated the distances. Everything out here was just so far from the next.”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“Keeley used the opening to bury the knife into Hank Scarlett’s heart. It took three tries.”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight

“It looks like a cow pissing on a flat rock, this rain.”
― C.J. Box, In Plain Sight