Chance Quotes

“He couldn’t prove it, but he imagined that back when they’d invented the wheel, someone had complained about how not dragging their belongings through the dirt would spoil the children.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“The way Abigail leaned in hungrily would have done Gollum proud.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“If he ever had fears or regrets, he wasn’t a man to share them with his children.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“And Maggie knew them. Maggie knew his kidnappers.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“Exclusivity was a hell of a drug.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“Lee Conway.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“an old food printer sat next to a microwave and a hot plate, three generations of food preparation side by side by side.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“She always answered the phone managing to sound like she’d just been dialing his number.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“her eyes, which were fiercely intelligent.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“Chekhov’s bouncers”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“Don’t praise the day before sunset.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“If he’d learned anything since, it was to never underestimate the stupidity of a man who believes he’s in the right.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“Chance pulled a frayed blanket from the back of the couch and wrapped it around his shoulders. His grandmother had knitted it for him as a baby present, and the blanket had sat for years untouched on the windowsill of his childhood bedroom. Now it might just be his most prized possession.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“Things had a way of being stripped of their context and repurposed.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“Meetings were the currency by which those people justified their existence.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“There just seemed to be a point in life when some people lost the ability to adapt to change.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“copacetic,”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance

“When they brought me home from Palingenesis, everything was just wrong. I felt out of place. Unwanted. Like they’d had a painting commissioned to remember their dead son, only the painting could walk and talk, and no one was ever going to want to look at it.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Chance