. . he was about as forthcoming as an amnesiac with lockjaw.
When she got out of her car. Faith hadn’t realized that something was wrong until well after the music stopped. Will let her run through the story—the torn-up house, the dead man she’d found and the t...
The price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.
The great thing about lying was people believed it so long as the lie was close enough to the truth. Lena
Moved as he swallowed. After
Looking
Looked like a deformed monkey holding either a baseball bat or an erect penis in his three-fingered hand. Lena sighed, wondering what the fuck she was doing here. Maybe she should just go to the stati...
Herself, but what would she find? A kept woman who was incapable
Got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.
Fund-raiser where the whitest men and women in North Atlanta sat around in Dolce & Gabbana sampling perogies and Swedish meatballs made by their children’s nannies.
Children always have different parents, even in the same family.
A large chifforobe wedged into a small closet that their mother said they’d have to pay Tom Robinson a nickel to bust up.
You don’t kidnap somebody if you love them. They come to you. They choose you. Not the other way around.
Will hated those cops, had worked more than a few cases where he’d gotten them kicked off the force. You couldn’t say you were one of the good guys if you did the same thing the bad guys did.
Will had found out the hard way that it’s nearly impossible to go to sleep with a flatulent Chihuahua sharing your pillow.
Well, it’s not like the good guys are lining up to date a cop, and I’m certainly not attracted to the type of useless asshole who’d want to marry a female police officer.
We think they’re real. Lydia tried to play devil’s advocate again. We think that girl looked like Anna Kilpatrick. We think that she was mutilated in the same way, based on what her mother said and di...
Time turns from a straight line into a sphere and it's not until later that you can hold it in your hand and look at all the different sides, and you think, Oh, now I remember --- this happened, then...
Time to wake up. Rick muted the TV when a commercial came on. He slipped on his reading glasses and asked, What is the groundnut better known as? Lydia carefully rolled onto her back so the cat wouldn...
This is the inscription Ben wrote inside the book: First you must have the images. Then come the words. —Robert James Waller.