Everybody Knows Quotes

“This feeling washes over her, this soul-deep wish to just go back to when she could walk through this burning world without noticing it’s on fire.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“You know the difference between a million and a billion? A million seconds is eleven days. A billion seconds is thirty-two years. Kyser has billions, man.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“Polygraphs don’t detect lies. They detect fear.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“It’s weird,” Tze says. “Like, he’s still in my phone. Do I delete him? It seems wrong. But like someday my contacts are going to be half dead people and that is weird too, right? Like we’re all going to be carrying these little graveyards around with us. Like we’re even going to be around that long.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“Most people who facilitate things like this hate themselves for doing it—and they think that makes it okay. Like it’s not really them who is doing it.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“LA traffic is like quicksand—struggling just makes you sink faster.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“One of their best moves is getting to control what we call violence and what we don’t.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“His body, UNSAID: Someday you’re going to die. His body, UNSAID: So what are you going to do until then?”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“These men whose appetites drive them. Men who have had all of their desires fulfilled and don’t understand why they don’t feel full. They’re always looking for something new.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“He looks the age the woman is not allowed to be.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“The Chateau Marmont: the hippest no-tell hotel in the world. This shabby-chic Gothic castle slouching against the base of the Hollywood Hills.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“The most important thing about a first impression,” she says, “is that you make one.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“People’s sex lives are like their dreams,” Mae says. “I only care about them if I’m in them.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“And maybe she would have carried this thing with her the rest of her life, this secret pain, this secret worry, but who doesn't? Who doesn't know their lives are built on top of bones? Who doesn't carry inside them that it's only brutal violence keeping this world afloat? Child slaves making our clothes, factory farms turning animals to slurry, nations of plastic floating in the ocean.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“The parking lot is jammed—the valets sprint from car to car. They play full-metal Tetris. They swerve, reverse at speed, never clip a bumper.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“Mae thought about how some people had bad things done to them, and they just couldn’t wait to push that pain onto someone else.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“The buildings and sky are festooned with billboards for TV shows and movies. Everything is a sequel or a reboot or an adaptation. Everything is an echo of something else.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“The movie people will go apeshit when they see Hannah’s eye. They can maybe film around her or fix her eye in post. CGI makeovers are boilerplate for the big stars—contractually obligated digital eye lifts and virtual Botox.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“He’s forty-one. He’s huge in a way that used to say offensive lineman—these days he’s trending toward ogre. He’s in a 3XL tracksuit. His hair is uncombed; his skin is pale under a patchy beard. He is a fist on someone else’s arm.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“They didn’t change me or corrupt me. They just saw what I was good for and they used it. It’s not going to change. But maybe I can point the gun another way.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“It’s like they all worked at a nuclear power plant with a bad reactor, and when they get cancer we all just point and laugh at their tumors,” Mae says.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows