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...
I hadn’t planned on sounding like J.J. from Good Times, but that’s the gist.
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...
He wore a watch on his wrist, but only as a cheat to help him differentiate between left and right.
Dyadic completion, Paul would’ve told Claire. The human brain tends to assume that, if there’s a victim, there has to be a villain.
Considering what Pauline's been through . . . Will began, then stopped himself. She's not very nice.She's a cold-blooded bitch.I'm surprised I haven't fallen in love with her.
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.
Claire laughed because it was easier than telling him to brush his hair out of his eyes and go back to college. She checked the time on her phone again. Paul was now twelve minutes late. She started c...
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...
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...
And Helen’s, too. The last time Lydia had talked to her mother, Helen had said, Don’t make me choose between you and your sister. To which Lydia had responded, I think you already have.
Witnesses,
The luxury vacations had come as a personal affront to a woman who had survived the Great Depression, a world war, the death of a husband, the loss of two children, and countless other hardships. Clai...
People found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on Jeopardy. She knew when to use who or whom. She could not abide misinformat...
Offer nothing
Fault. That the world isn’t just changing. It’s passing you by.
A large chifforobe wedged into a small closet that their mother said they’d have to pay Tom Robinson a nickel to bust up.
Will let out a long breath. She leaves me a lot. That's what she does. She leaves, and then she comes back. And then she stays some and then she leaves again.Where does she go?I have no idea.You've ne...
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...