Elle Gray > Quotes

“Better to confront a hard truth you don’t like that hurts you, than to walk around in bliss because you’re being deceived.”
― Elle Gray, Her Perfect Crime

“You expect that your mother will be there when nobody else is.”
― Elle Gray, The Chosen Girls

“When people don’t have to scrape by just to survive, they can thrive.”
― Elle Gray, The 7 She Saw

“We can only do what we can and lend our help where we believe it’s most needed. We may have to take little wins, but those are still wins,”
― Elle Gray, The Perfect Crime

“I prefer living life on the road, as a nomad with no permanent roots, simply because the idea of being bound to one spot terrifies me.”
― Elle Gray, The 7 She Saw

“Ambition doesn’t make a person bad; it’s what they’re willing to do to achieve their goals that does.”
― Elle Gray, No More Lies

“before she went missing?”
― Elle Gray, The Lost Girls

“superfluous show of force meant to intimidate me with their dour, disapproving”
― Elle Gray, I See You

“Exactly. I like that better.” I flop back onto my pillows and add the pieces of the puzzle to the already considerable pile on my mental table. I shift them around and try to put them together in some order that makes sense. But”
― Elle Gray, Night at the Asylum

“Letting circumstances dictate your mood and attitude only let those circumstances control you,”
― Elle Gray, The Missing Woman

“enjoyed”
― Elle Gray, A Wife's Secret

“a”
― Elle Gray, A Shot to Kill

“To be better.”
― Elle Gray, Shadows of the Falls

“you’re going to rebound and overcome it, find some way to make good decisions that will lead you down a path that will make your life better.”
― Elle Gray, The Secret She Kept

“inhabitable.”
― Elle Gray, Memories of the Falls

“maybe Arabella and Andrew were just massive liars.”
― Elle Gray, Love, Lies, and Suicide

“decisions.” “Yeah, I know. She did. She”
― Elle Gray, Sins of the Falls

“You stand your ground, my girl. If stayin’ away means stayin’ sane, you do it.”
― Elle Gray, The Girl in the Valley

“If she’s just a run-of-the-mill, spineless politician who cares more about the size of her bank account than she does about her constituents. Of course, she’s hardly unique in that regard. Politics is full of people just like her.”
― Elle Gray, The House on the Hill

“I can’t control what they do,”
― Elle Gray, Summer in the Falls

“forced her to take a close look at herself, to take an account of her faults and flaws—of which, there were many—but something inside of her had shifted.”
― Elle Gray, Shadows of the Falls

“puts my heart and all my feelings into a steel box and then locks it away in the deep recesses of my mind. It’s”
― Elle Gray, No More Lies

“When you spend your life running from people, sometimes you end up matching paces with another runner and then suddenly, you’re a part of the same marathon. The same race. Running from, together.”
― Elle Gray, The Girl in Town

“Grant is part of that good old boys’ club, guys who don’t think much of female agents, and think male agents are inherently better just because they can pee standing up. I obviously don’t subscribe to that sort of thinking.”
― Elle Gray, Her Perfect Crime

“every time I’m close to opening up to Charles, it’s like alarms start going off in my head and my body”
― Elle Gray, No More Lies

“Who”
― Elle Gray, The Missing Woman

“Now, contrast that with a place like Centennial, Colorado, or Sterling Heights, Michigan, which are among the safest cities in the United States and have some of the lowest violent crime rates in the nation. There is so little violent crime in those cities, you don’t see the same sort of instant escalation of hostility. You don’t see the same sort of violent reaction to those same inconsequential things that would get you shot on the South Side of Chicago. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that those cities have robust economies and opportunities for people to succeed. When people don’t have to scrape by just to survive, they can thrive.”
― Elle Gray, The 7 She Saw

“the”
― Elle Gray, The Runaway Girls

“face as she lied there.”
― Elle Gray, The Woman Behind the Door

“after giving him a swift kick in the junk.” It is not difficult at all to picture Astra doing just that. And given that she was a soccer star back in college, I’m pretty sure the guy wasn’t walking right for a few days afterward. “I’m not sure that’s what’s going on here. He spends too many nights at my place for him to be married,” I say. “Doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a side piece,” she offers. “No, I know. Maybe,” I reply. “But as I’ve sat here thinking about it –” “Brooding.” I cock my head as I look at her. “What?” “Brooding. The technical name for what you were doing is called brooding.” I laugh. “Fine. While I was sitting here brooding, I just kind of got the idea that it has nothing to do with another woman at all. There’s something….else.” “Something like what?” I shake my head. “That much, I don’t know,” I admit. “I mean, I don’t know anything. This could just be my brain jumping at shadows that aren’t”
― Elle Gray, Her Perfect Crime