They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. —Mexican Proverb
The glowing screen made her feel oddly at ease. She had been without her phone or iPad all night. Andy had not realized how much time she wasted listening to Spotify or checking Instagram and Snapchat...
The entire world gave men the responsibility for everything in it except for their dicks.
That’s when you fall in love with somebody. The lust and fucking like rabbits and letting your life fall to shit so you can be around him—that’s passion. It’s borderline obsession. And it always burns...
So far, she had nothing but fear and the nauseating sensation that the hour would pass and she would be just as helpless as when she’d first left the Fuller house. The same problems that had plagued h...
Sara studied him. Is that a Chihuahua behind your back?No, I'm just happy to see youSara gave him a confused smile, and he reluctantly showed her Betty.
Redneck alarm, Charlie told her. You couldn’t step foot in the Holler without a hundred dogs howling your arrival. The deeper in you went, the more young white men you’d see standing on their front po...
Press evenly, the praying mantis said, chewing off the wings of a fly.
Please know I worked very hard to make sure everyone—no matter race, religion, creed, gender, or national origin—was equally maligned.
People don’t take power. Somebody has to give it to them.
Not if you add in the earrings. They shouldn’t joke about this, but the alternative was to take it very seriously. She said, It’s weird. I know the monitor’s not there anymore, but I can still feel it...
Men can always reinvent themselves, Laura said. For women, once you’re a mother, you’re always a mother.
Lydia stared into the darkness of the trunk as she listened to the hum of wheels on the road. She had already run through all the things you were supposed to do if you ever got locked inside a trunk....
It might do you some good to remember that at the end of the day, no matter how smart that brain of yours is up there, it's your heart that needs looking after.
In a rare moment of candor, he had once told her that being in a library was like sitting down at a table laid with all his favorite foods but not being able to eat any of them. And he hated himself f...
If you love someone, you don’t go out of your way to hurt them. You don’t torture them. You don’t terrify them or make them live in constant fear. That’s not how love works. It’s not how normal people...
I would've given up without her - not on you, never on you, but on myself. I suppose I can tell you this now, but I wasn't a very good student. I wasn't smart enough to just get by. I wasn't focused e...
I was told you take your capital cases seriously down here.
I loved him. I know you don’t want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him.
I found this. He put the briefcase on the table and opened the locks. She saw a stack of papers, an evidence bag with a red seal. He pulled a college notebook with a blue plastic cover from one of the...