Run on Red Quotes

“For the ones who made it out alive. For the ones who didn’t. For the ones still fighting somewhere in between.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Men like this said things like that to girls like us, knowing we’d been told our whole lives that if we listened carefully and followed the rules, we’d stay safe.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“We were all targets.  Even if you made the right choice, followed the right rules, took the right risks, kept your cool, made the right friends, didn’t walk alone home after dark, kept a rape whistle in your pocket, and guarded your drink at bars.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“came back because you’re my best friend, and I couldn’t leave you.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Your chances of surviving an assault at any given location are 97%. Your chances of survival, if you are taken to a second location, drop to 30%.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Fear was a warning, a survival instinct. It meant there might still be a way out, if only you could keep your legs pumping and your brain firing long enough to find out.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“thought of myself as a true-crime junkie. But it turned out, that was only when it happened to other people.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I’d been bracing for something bad to happen for as long as I could remember. Ever vigilant, ever anxious,”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Narcissists think they’re smarter than everyone else. But that doesn’t mean they are. That’s how they get caught. They make mistakes. They underestimate the intelligence of police. And they underestimate the intelligence of their victims.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“The idea that every choice, no matter how small, mattered had fascinated my anxious brain.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Narcissists think they’re smarter than everyone else. But that doesn’t mean they are.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I’d always thought I could skip the bad parts of life if I tried hard enough. If I was smart enough.  But sometimes the trouble came to you—for the simple fact that it could and it wanted to.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I looked at her in disbelief. “If I see a damn mouse come out of your dashboard, I am hurling myself out of the Volvo.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Panic is your enemy.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“The irony that we might have escaped the psychopaths on the road only to freeze to death in the canyon felt razor sharp. I couldn’t let the story end this way.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I’d always thought of myself as a true-crime junkie. But it turned out, that was only when it happened to other people.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I’d been bracing for something bad to happen for as long as I could remember. Ever vigilant, ever anxious, Olivia Heath. ”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“The idea that every choice, no matter how small, mattered had fascinated my anxious brain. Every chapter ended with a choice that set the rest of the story in motion. Sliding doors—the outcome of which either set you free or sealed your fate.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“We just needed to get as far away from whatever was waiting for us inside that cabin, as quickly as possible. We’d figure the rest out from there.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Why won’t you just tell me where we’re taking her? You have to tell me.” That familiar voice nudged at my memory then retreated, still unwilling to reveal itself. “This isn’t what we talked about.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I braced for the car to flip end over end, like a scene from Mission Impossible. Instead, we slid a few feet then stopped when the tires sank into the soft dirt at the top of the grade.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“wishing I’d brought the pepper spray tonight. It was sitting on my dresser right now—too bulky for my party outfit.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“The idea that every choice, no matter how small, mattered had fascinated my anxious brain. Every chapter ended with a choice that set”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I’d always thought of myself as a true-crime junkie. But it turned out, that was only when it happened to other people. ”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I’d always thought I could skip the bad parts of life if I tried hard enough. If I was smart enough. ”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I’d been bracing for something bad to happen for as long as I could remember.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I suddenly remembered the Choose Your Own Adventure books I had loved when I was little—the gateway drug to a lifetime of fascination with true crime. ”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Narcissists think they’re smarter than everyone else. But that doesn’t mean they are. That’s how they get caught. They make mistakes. They underestimate the intelligence of police. And they underestimate the intelligence of their victims. ”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“When Britney’s voice reemerged, it was slow and distorted, like the song had been dunked in syrup.  “Brit? Stay with us,”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“chances of surviving an assault at any given location are 97%. Your chances of survival, if you are taken to a second location, drop to 30%.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red