Men never have to be uncomfortable around women. Women have to be uncomfortable around men all of the time.
Like my father, I have devoted my life to treating animals, but that was the first time I had ever made the connection between the horrible things people do to animals and the even more horrific thing...
If there was one thing she excelled at, it was being her own inner mean girl.
I know you’re an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.
I guess I see your point, but there’s more to people than how they look. But you only get to know somebody because you like what you see. He smiled down at her. I like what I see. Lydia wond...
Her hearing had faded out as soon as he’d touched her—maybe it was the angels playing harps or the exploding fireworks. Maybe her drink was too strong or her heart was too lonely.
He wore a watch on his wrist, but only as a cheat to help him differentiate between left and right.
He talked about how people always obsess about lies. Damn lies, But no one really understands that the real danger is truth.
He said, What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it’s worse than murder, because he has killed that potenti...
He grinned. It’s cheaper than that
First you must have the images. Then come the words. —Robert James Waller.
Everyone knows you’re beautiful, he’d told her, but no one knows that you’re clever. Clever. Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.
Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
Dogs are stupid, Rusty said. This is a known fact. But a cat—you have to earn a cat’s respect every single day of your life.
Claire shook her head. She was scared that he wasn’t taking her seriously. She was also scared that he was. They were down the rabbit hole now. There was no turning back.
Charlie watched her husband’s boss grip the sides of the podium like he was about to sodomize it.
Charlie had always told Lenore things that she would never admit to anyone else. Lenore had known Rusty for over fifty years. She was a black hole into which all of the Quinn family secrets disappeare...
As hard as it was to hold on to things, it was even harder to let them go.
Anna’s baby after Anna had been abducted. Then she’d gotten locked up and the kid was left alone. If Lola was taking care of him, Will said, she would need to get in and out of the building. The eleva...
Amanda was probably in her mid-fifties, a small woman, maybe five-three on a good day. Her attitude filled the room, and she walked with a swagger that rivaled a bullfighter's. She wore a simple diamo...