He’s a narcissist, and I wonder what it says about me that I’m willing to sleep with a man whose eyes constantly look past me in search of his own reflection.
And he'd kill Lily Ann Denton, put her in the trunkm and go to arbys.
Touching on the points of two lives that had once intersected, and were now reunited.
Mechanical,
Mean, not for the same reason, Birdy
The women laugh a little. I do too. Though I’m only mimicking their laughter. Nothing is funny to me.
Serena
No one, certainly no teenager, was normal or felt they were. Everyone wore a kind of mask that kept people from really seeing what - or who - was inside
Mimi killed her brother,
Now. Emily pulled
Grateful because each detail kept her from the purpose of the call. She talked about her life in California and how she had never returned to Rock Point or Spruce County.
The ones that test the limits sometimes do the most amazing things in life. That’s what I’ve always thought.
People born rich don’t try so hard. They know they don’t need to. They already have everything they want, and they never have to break a sweat to show it off. Showing it off is for those at risk of en...
I don’t know why the water and the sky scare me. I wonder if it is because here at the ocean there is no place to hide.
Gossip sometimes becomes a reality for some.
Claire and Dorothea are ill because they can afford to be ill.
But learned personality traits aren't often based on present reality but on a past from which there is no escape.
As we stand there, the rain rolling off umbrellas, a man pushes through the soggy crowd. He’s tall with dark, wavy hair that brushes his ears. He’s wearing a long, black overcoat, and his shoes are ex...
A criminal case is an assemblage of facts and details in an order that presents a story to a jury. Some pieces of the puzzle are magnified and others are diminished. In some cases, pieces are hidden....
Bullshit. I wish. I just got off the phone with her so-called lawyer—Deke Meyer. They want to work out a deal so that Mimi can be