Elle Cosimano > Quotes

“It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by eight thirty A.M. on any given morning. On the particular morning of Tuesday, October eighth, I was ready by seven forty-five. If you’ve never had to wrestle a two-year-old slathered in maple syrup into a diaper while your four-year-old decides to give herself a haircut in time for preschool, all while trying to track down the whereabouts of your missing nanny as you sop up coffee grounds from an overflowing pot because in your sleep-deprived fog you forgot to put in the filter, let me spell it out for you.

I was ready to kill someone. I didn’t really care who.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“My Google search history alone was probably enough to put me on a government watch list. I wrote suspense novels about murders like this. I’d searched every possible way to kill someone. With every conceivable kind of weapon.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by eight thirty A.M. on any given morning.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“I hadn't yet come to terms with the man my father was, or the lives he'd destroyed. But I accepted that he was part of me, and that he'd loved me once.”
― Elle Cosimano, Nearly Gone

“Are you going to give me a reason to stay?”
― Elle Cosimano, Nearly Gone

“You can’t spend your whole life shut up in that house, making up stories.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“My relationship with Panera was complicated. I liked their soup. Panera didn't like that I'd poured it over another customer's head. In my defense, Theresa had started it when she'd attempted to justify her reasons for sleeping with my husband.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“But just because you can survive alone doesn’t mean you should have to.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead

“Nick and Vero glanced up as my heels clicked into the kitchen. Vero looked confused. “I’m sorry. Do I know you? Because I thought I worked for a vampire in yoga pants.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“We are not adding grand larceny of farming equipment to our growing list of felonies.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“I hope you're worth it.”
― Elle Cosimano, Nearly Gone

“You never want to be the asshole that leaves a message promising to kill someone for being late, only to find out they’ve already been murdered.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“Sometimes, she'd said, you can't see the whole story until it's laid out on the page, and the only way to figure out what happens next is to write your way through it, one scene after the next, until it's done.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“Vince sneered at me with bloody teeth and dropped the twenties at my feet as security herded him through the crowd. I didn't pick them up. A shoulder bumped against me, and I looked up into Reece's expressionless face as security marched him past.
He didn't even look at me, his words cold enough to burn.
"I hope you're worth it.”
― Elle Cosimano, Nearly Gone

“It's hard to want to kill someone once they've saved your life”
― Elle Cosimano, Seasons of the Storm

“That resolution of yours is a load of horseshit. This is the age of sex positivity, body positivity, and hashtag MeToo. It’s Lizzo’s world, Finn; we’re all just living in it. Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t have dessert.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun

“Sometimes, the only way to find a solution is to break the rules.”
― Elle Cosimano, Nearly Gone

“Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives.’ I make it a point never to assume the worst about people.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“She lifts her hands to his face, her knuckles blistered and raw, as if she battled the world to get to him”
― Elle Cosimano, Seasons of the Storm

“Loan sharks don’t negotiate, Finn. They break kneecaps and chop off fingers.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun

“She chuckled darkly. “And to think you were worried about a damn shower curtain. Nothing says ‘serial killer’ like a chest freezer in a garage.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“I look at Fleur. At Julio and Amber. And in them- in us- I see possibilities I haven't let myself see before. Together, we are the storm.”
― Elle Cosimano, Seasons of the Storm

“But maybe we aren't the sum of our mistakes or our genes or our circumstances or our fears. Maybe, in the end, we're the product of our choices. And maybe it's when we hold someone's life in our hands - the choices we make in those moments - when we get a taste of what we're truly made of.”
― Elle Cosimano, Nearly Found

“And those traces of my father-the pain he'd left behind in the people he'd stolen from, the genes I carried that made me just like him-terrified me.”
― Elle Cosimano, Nearly Found

“Just because it's complicated, doesn't mean there isn't a solution.”
― Elle Cosimano, Nearly Gone

“Julio rubs his eyes and watches the place where she disappeared down the sidewalk thirty-two minutes ago, as if by the sheer will of his longing, he can somehow bring her back”
― Elle Cosimano, Seasons of the Storm

“He pulls her against his chest. "I'm sorry you didn't have the chance to say goodbye to your mom."
Her eyes shine with tears. "That wasn't the goodbye I regretted most”
― Elle Cosimano, Seasons of the Storm

“Why'd you do it, anyway?' He wore a self-deprecating look, hands stuffed in his pockets while he kicked at the gravel.
'Do what?'
'Why waste your time saving someone who can't be fixed?'
I folded my arms over my chest, tucking my hands under them as I backed away, wishing I could kiss him without caring how he felt. 'Maybe you're not the only one who's broken.”
― Elle Cosimano, Nearly Gone

“But the truth is, sometimes help doesn't come in time, and we have to find the strength to face what lies ahead on our own”
― Elle Cosimano, Seasons of the Storm

“And every minute that goes by and Amber's not here, my heart breaks for him.”
― Elle Cosimano, Seasons of the Storm