Cleo Coyle > Quotes

“Read with joy!”
― Cleo Coyle

“Real gold doesn't start its journey in a display window at Tiffany. It's dug out of the dirty earth. Sometimes true gold doesn't glitter. It may need a little polishing, but don't let that bit of needed patience or effort trick you into discarding what could be the greatest treasure of your life.”
― Cleo Coyle, Billionaire Blend

“There comes an age in life when you realize that blaming and regretting are a waste of precious time.”
― Cleo Coyle, Murder Most Frothy

“The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop.
Suffice it to say, I froze.”
― Cleo Coyle, On What Grounds

“Survive everything. And do it with style.”
― Cleo Coyle, Murder by Mocha

“Instead of shutting ourselves off in fear, becoming victims—part of the problem—we became a solution.”
― Cleo Coyle, Billionaire Blend

“Annabelle, I'm going to kill you!" I cried, frowning at the mess. Then I glanced down the stairway and gasped.

It looked like someone had beaten me to it.”
― Cleo Coyle

“We all have threads in our lives, continuous strands that reach back years, decades, entire lifetimes. The threads are what help define who we are.”
― Cleo Coyle, Espresso Shot

“Coffee makes a sad man cheerful, a languorous man active, a cold man warm, a warm man glowing. It awakens mental powers thought to be dead, and when left in a sick room, it fills the room with a fragrance…. The very smell of coffee terrorizes death.”
― Cleo Coyle, On What Grounds

“If a woman's going into battle, she's got to have the proper footwear.”
― Cleo Coyle, Once Upon a Grind

“He'd followed in the footsteps of a man who knew the way.”
― Cleo Coyle, Holiday Grind

“When coffee is bad it is the wickedest thing in town; when good, the most glorious.”
― Cleo Coyle, On What Grounds

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” —T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
― Cleo Coyle, On What Grounds

“(an inevitable truth of life: Not every foodie memory is a good foodie memory).”
― Cleo Coyle, Holiday Grind

“Blackness was not the whole of it. “There are bright points of light—so many!—between the dark places. This is what’s important. This is where life is.”
― Cleo Coyle, Once Upon a Grind

“As the 1902 coffee almanac put it, 'When coffee is bad it is the wickedest thing in town; when good, the most glorious.”
― Cleo Coyle, On What Grounds

“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home. —L. FRANK BAUM, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ”
― Cleo Coyle, Dead to the Last Drop

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. —Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs”
― Cleo Coyle, Once Upon a Grind

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. —Will Rogers”
― Cleo Coyle, The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller

“Ubuntu is a deep-seated belief that humanity is something we owe to one another. How I act toward you is what defines me. Not what I have or what I wear—but how I treat you, how I interact with you.” “In Africa, it’s also about sharing,” I pointed out. “Generosity of spirit and community. An awareness that we’re all interconnected.”
― Cleo Coyle, Shot in the Dark

“FUBAR.” During our exchange, his leg jerked”
― Cleo Coyle, Dead to the Last Drop

“I dream a world . . . where every man is free . . . And joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind . . .”
― Cleo Coyle, Dead to the Last Drop

“freeway”
― Cleo Coyle, On What Grounds

“Here, Clare, Clare, Clare . . . Come to Papa!”
― Cleo Coyle, Once Upon a Grind

“And Matt's passion fueled Breanne's emotional recovery. Giddily soaking up her groom's repeated, ardent kisses, the usually restrained, ultra-cool sophisticate was feeling no pain, laughing and animated and uncaring that her exquisite Italian silk creation had been stained like a macchiato. ...she wore the espresso like a badge of honor-- even insisted more photos be taken with the damaged tray and the spattered gown.”
― Cleo Coyle, Espresso Shot

“Oh, chocolate fudge I’ll eat. What I can’t swallow is fudging, as in fudging statistics, fudging results, fudging the truth. Mathematicians call it a fudge factor—putting an extra calculation into an equation just so it will work out as expected....It’s what we law enforcement types call a scam.”
― Cleo Coyle, Murder by Mocha

“Cold rain streaked the dark gray stone, trickling like tears down its smooth blank face.”
― Cleo Coyle, On What Grounds

“And even Andy would agree. Trendy glasses and a few short years of college are a poor replacement for a lifetime of experience and decent manners. Good day.” Before”
― Cleo Coyle, Dead Cold Brew

“Nocciuola, which is Italian for hazelnut, was basically a latte with the addition of hazelnut-flavored syrup. (We didn’t have a liquor license, but I did keep a bottle of Frangelico, a lovely Italian hazelnut liqueur, hidden under the counter for the occasional spike—for a few very special customers upon request.”
― Cleo Coyle, Through the Grinder

“Ethics are more important than laws. —Wynton Marsalis, artistic director, Jazz at Lincoln Center”
― Cleo Coyle, Dead to the Last Drop