Quotes by Chelsea Cain

About Chelsea Cain:

Chelsea Snow Cain is an American novelist and columnist.
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I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

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Even the most blatant assholes seemed to function in a state of grace when confronted with the brutal loss of a loved one. They moved through the world differently than other people. When they looked at you, you had the feeling that they were really ...

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She lied to me today," Archie said. "A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.

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No duh, Susan said. You are like a walking vault of things you don't tell people. People who have secrets should pay you to hold on to them for them. You could be like a secret bank.

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Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.

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Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender.

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Robbins had opened Gabby up. Her charred skin was peeled back, and her ribs were removed. She was pink inside, like steak that had been burned on a high heat but remained raw in the middle.

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They were going to have a conversation, he realized. Archie didn't know a lot about women, but he had been married and he knew when a conversation was coming, and he knew when a woman wanted to have one, the best thing you could do was get it over wi...

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But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had proven that.

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There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.

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Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives.

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I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

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I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

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As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.

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I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.

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I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised.

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I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.

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I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.

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I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

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I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.

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Author Bio

  • NameChelsea Cain
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist and writer
  • BornFebruary 5, 1972
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist