Quotes from Cleo Coyle

Read with joy!

There comes an age in life when you realize that blaming and regretting are a waste of precious time.

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.

Survive everything. And do it with style.

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.

If a woman's going into battle, she's got to have the proper footwear.

As the 1902 coffee almanac put it, 'When coffee is bad it is the wickedest thing in town; when good, the most glorious.

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.

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.

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.

Instead of shutting ourselves off in fear, becoming victims—part of the problem—we became a solution.

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.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. —Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

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

an inevitable truth of life: Not every foodie memory is a good foodie memory).

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." —T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

He'd followed in the footsteps of a man who knew the way.

Cold rain streaked the dark gray stone, trickling like tears down its smooth blank face.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. —Will Rogers

I dream a world . . . where every man is free . . . And joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind . . .

Survive everything. And do it with style. ~ Cleo Coyle

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

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.

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. —LEWIS BLACK