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“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

“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

“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 fragranceâ€�. 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

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

“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

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

“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

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.â€� —T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
― 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

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

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

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

“freeway”
― Cleo Coyle, On What Grounds

“Character can’t be taught. You’re reliable or you’re not. You do what you say you’re going to, or you don’t.”
― Cleo Coyle, On What Grounds

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

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

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

“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.â€� “In Africa, it’s also about sharing,â€� I pointed out. “Generosity of spirit and community. An awareness that we’re all interconnected.”
― Cleo Coyle, Shot in the Dark

“already know. It’s like finding a needle in a haystackâ€�”
― Cleo Coyle, Once Upon a Grind

“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

“I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. —LEWIS BLACK”
― Cleo Coyle, Brewed Awakening

“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

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