Chris Pavone > Quotes

“Julian's daughter was gluten-free voluntarily and vegan insufferably.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman

“After a certain age, nothing ever gets better, not really. It’s just different speeds of getting worse and, ultimately, futile. No one gets out alive.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“Still his heart skips when the phone rings late at night. Maybe a hospital or police or some boyfriend calling with terrible news”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“So it was that in the middle of middle age, Julian found himself greeting each dawn with pessimism, and each evening reaping the dubious reward of having proved himself correct. Each day he felt less and less valued, more and more irrelevant, a progression that looked inexorable.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“Insecurity and homophobia are so highly correlated that Ariel suspects they're the same thing.”
― Chris Pavone, Two Nights in Lisbon

“Reportage doesn't mean what it used to. People already believe what they believe, and these days they go to the media to assure them that they're right, not to learn otherwise.”
― Chris Pavone, Deux nuits à Lisbonne

“That’s how Whit had gotten obscenely rich: by exploiting somebody else’s invention, using connections from an expensive education financed by inherited wealth, to redirect taxpayer dollars from the working class into his own bank account. Whit had talked himself into being proud of this.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“You have no idea”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“If what you want is anonymity, nothing succeeds like aging.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman

“Like "thoughts and prayers," it's what people say when what they plan to do is nothing.”
― Chris Pavone, Deux nuits à Lisbonne

“O mundo inteiro encarado como um clube gigante.”
― Chris Pavone

“All the best things in life come with a lot that isn’t.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“I hate social selfies in front of artwork,” he said instead. “They make me apoplectic. Sometimes I think my hatred is wildly out of proportion. But at other times I’m certain that these posts signify an inversion of the very idea of art”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“The opposite of the expected thing wasn’t clever. It was just as predictable”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“Productivity isn’t just moving forward; it’s also figuring out which direction to move in.”
― Chris Pavone

“She supposes there are many different ways to love. Hate is much simpler.”
― Chris Pavone, Deux nuits à Lisbonne

“These apartments were more like vaults than residences. One sold for two hundred and twenty million dollars, a figure equivalent to spending nearly a thousand dollars per day, every day, for six hundred years. A scale that proved just how much was wrong with the world.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“Volatile men tend to create their own wide orbits of tolerance. No one wants to confront them.”
― Chris Pavone, Deux nuits à Lisbonne

“Se não se tiver paciência, elinheiro ou conhecimiento, coisas vetustas e complicadas não constituem escolhas sensatas.”
― Chris Pavone

“and strawberry-mint mojitos,”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“But the actual famous people were almost never recognized, because they were much older than their images in the public memory. The Tony-winning actor shuffled his beagle to the park in peace; no one tried to peer behind the disco icon’s sunglasses. If what you want is anonymity, nothing succeeds like aging.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“She had been silenced by operant conditioning, by receiving the same response again and again, like an electroshocked lab rat, or a beaten dog. A disbelieved woman.”
― Chris Pavone, Deux nuits à Lisbonne

“Julian asked himself: what do I still want to do before I die? This was another thing that depressed him: he didn’t really have any answer.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“Morgan had the unquestioned reverence for the Ivy League that’s peculiar to those who’d gone elsewhere.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“Is evil transitive? That was one of the questions that kept Emily awake at night.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“The woman walked away without saying thanks, or sorry to bother you, anything. Now that Julian was no longer famous, she was no longer polite.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“Sometimes you know you’re making a mistake even as you’re doing it. Sometimes you don’t have any real choice.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“This affair was maybe the best experience of his life. But it was also the worst. If it doesn’t hurt, it isn’t love.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“You have no idea, when you’re young, what it’s going to be like when you’re not.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“Chicky hopes that Canarius won’t turn out to be a guy who uses his origin story as an excuse to be an asshole. But you never know. Evolution isn’t always the same as improvement.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel