Peter Abrahams > Quotes

“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered.”
― Peter Abrahams, End of Story: A Psychological Thriller About a Writer Lured by a Prisoner's Dangerous Talent into Darkness

“Ingrid shrugged...like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants.”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“The bigger the crime, Holmes said, the more obvious the motive. That was one of his basic rules.”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“The problem with deep thinking was it could lead to unpleasant conclusions.”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“Flats?”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“And over and over she told him she loved him. And over and over he told her he loved her. And it was always a new thing that they told each other.”
― Peter Abrahams

“Guilt was dread without the tightness in the chest part, just the weight in the gut.”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“Being rich, really rich, meant you could go completely crazy, and the only result would be everyone getting so jealous they couldn’t stand it.”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“In ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, he said it was a capital mistake to theorize without data, because you ended up twisting facts to suit theories instead of the other way around.”
― Peter Abrahams, Behind the Curtain

“Innocence is the currency. Survival is bought with innocence. You are born with an abundance of innocence and no knowledge of how to survive: you spend your life trading one for the other. But it only works one way. You can’t buy back your innocence.”
― Peter Abrahams, The Fury of Rachel Monette

“He glanced at her in what she thought seemed a normal way. Everyone else was trying to peer into her soul, to measure the pain inside.”
― Peter Abrahams, The Fury of Rachel Monette

“You’re born cute. Babies are cute. Not hard to guess why – it’s so everyone will forgive them for being such a pain. You grow a little older, and people say, what beautiful hair, or get a load of those baby blues,’ or something nice that keeps you thinking you’re still on the cuteness track. Then you hit twelve or thirteen and boom, they tell you everything needs fixing.”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“At that moment, Ingrid remembered ‘The Five Orange Pips’ and maybe the most important thing Holmes told Watson: the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the ones, both before and after.”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“Sometimes fear helps, he said. Like fear of flunking a test, so you study. But when bad’s going to happen for sure, fear only hurts.”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“The power of suggestion. Maybe everything human ended up being subjective and nothing could be known for sure.”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“Rachel turned and looked at him, and saw his tired gray eyes and his tired gray skin. If he would go away she could imagine it was yesterday.”
― Peter Abrahams, The Fury of Rachel Monette