Lisa Gray > Quotes

“Not everything’s black and white in this world, Jess. Sometimes good people make mistakes. Sometimes innocent folk are locked up for things they didn’t do. And sometimes, the really bad ones never have to pay for what they’ve done.”
― Lisa Gray, Thin Air

“camera’s lens were Eleanor Lavelle and Rob Young. The photo itself told her they were Eleanor Lavelle and Tony Shaw.”
― Lisa Gray, Thin Air

“He wasn’t just the boss—he was the fun police.”
― Lisa Gray, Thin Air

“Dead or didn’t want to be found. Jessica Shaw now knew there was a third category she had never even considered. Those who didn’t know they were missing.”
― Lisa Gray, Thin Air

“but”
― Lisa Gray, Lonely Hearts

“have”
― Lisa Gray, Thin Air

“What does Jack Beaumont know about Michael’s accident? What if he’s figured out the truth?”
― Lisa Gray, Dead of Night

“pass the sign hammered into the front yard’s overgrown lawn, warning the house is protected by Smith & Wesson, and I laugh quietly to myself in the darkness. I know a gun isn’t going to save her tonight.”
― Lisa Gray, Thin Air

“Home wasn’t necessarily where you were born; it was where you felt you most belonged.”
― Lisa Gray, To Die For

“the Duprie family. They used to live at the Cliff House, and then all three of them just vanished one night. Disappeared into thin air. But that was decades ago.”
― Lisa Gray, Dead of Night

“She didn’t notice the car concealed by foliage at the side of the road, or the driver behind the wheel who was watching her.”
― Lisa Gray, Dead of Night

“Her partner, Michael, was dead.”
― Lisa Gray, Dead of Night

“felt”
― Lisa Gray, To Die For

“she was clearly a professional protester—one of those people who showed up to scream and shout and be outraged just so they could feel like they were a part of something,”
― Lisa Gray, The Dark Room

“As a woman, she’d had to work her ass off to get to where she was now, to be taken as seriously as her male coworkers. As a Black woman, even more so. She’d had to tolerate the pats on the butt, the dinner-and-drinks invitations, the blatant requests for sex. On more than one occasion, she’d had the door slammed in her face at a listing appointment or a showing because of the color of her skin. And she had never let it grind her down. If anything, it had made her all the more determined.”
― Lisa Gray, To Die For

“Not everything’s black and white in this world, Jess. Sometimes good people make mistakes. Sometimes innocent folk are locked up for things they didn’t do. And sometimes, the really bad ones never have to pay for what”
― Lisa Gray, Thin Air

“Unless she was talking about the Duprie family. They used to live at the Cliff House, and then all three of them just vanished one night. Disappeared into thin air. But that was decades ago.”
― Lisa Gray, Dead of Night

“Crystal Chandeliers” by Charley Pride”
― Lisa Gray, Lonely Hearts

“she was pretty sure he was Ace Freeman because he had the name Ace tattooed onto his right bicep above an inking of the playing card. You didn’t need to be a private investigator to figure it out.”
― Lisa Gray, Thin Air

“Tomorrow lunchtime. So much for my weekend neighborhood cookout, huh?” “You could always go after?” Lombardi suggested. “I don’t know about that, Tim. That’s the funny thing about cutting open a body, it really puts you off the sight of cooked meat right after.”
― Lisa Gray, To Die For

“You have to look pretty if you want to sell pretty houses, sweetie.”
― Lisa Gray, To Die For

“mold smudges ruining the paintwork like sooty mascara tears on flushed cheeks.”
― Lisa Gray, Dark Highway

“Real estate is a cutthroat business. You have to be strong—ruthless even—if you want to survive. And you have to be good.”
― Lisa Gray, To Die For

“Yoga-toned”
― Lisa Gray, Dark Highway

“No doubt she would have frowned if her Botoxed face would have allowed her to,”
― Lisa Gray, To Die For