I hadn’t planned on sounding like J.J. from Good Times, but that’s the gist.
I had experienced a TIA, which of course further infuriated your mother (she has always been hostile to abbreviation).
Holy shit. Nolan’s tone was reverential. Claire had seen men get harder over Paul’s garage than they ever got over a woman.
Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.
Faith gripped the steering wheel. I hate rape cases. You don’t throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, ‘Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what wa...
Evil people can do good. Good people can do evil. Why does this happen sometimes? Because it’s Tuesday.
Dr. Carroll, the warden said, his voice sounding like Foghorn Leghorn, Ben Carver is a psychopath. He’s incapable of empathy or remorse. If you see something human in him, that’s only because he’s pla...
Come on, Mitchell. Collier was like a puppy nipping at her heels. I know you checked me out. What’d your mom say? Faith made an educated guess. That you’re cocky and prone to mistakes. He grinned. I k...
Coach Henley gave his whistle two short blasts to get the team moving. The Westerly Women ambled over and formed a half circle. The Mothers stamped their feet on the bleachers, trying to build excitem...
Claire lunged toward her desk. She opened the drawer. Lydia’s file was still hidden inside. Claire’s relief was so pronounced that she wanted to cry. She touched her fingers to her cheek. She was cryi...
Claire asked, Do you think I should call Captain Mayhew? For what? Lydia couldn’t keep the alarm out of her voice. The abrupt change in subject slapped her like a cold wind. He lied to you about the m...
Belle Isle Andy hadn’t had a drink since she’d returned home. She wasn’t sure whether or not she wanted to break the streak. Still, she took a cup and sat cross-legged on the floor so that her dad cou...
Because I said so. She paused again. Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.
Are you not answering because you don't want me to know or are you not answering because you want to annoy me?That is a complicated question with an equally complicated answer.
And now, when she looked in the mirror and saw a new line on her own face,a new wrinkle, all she could think was that she was growing old without him
All the sneakiness her sister had exhibited as a child had been honed to adult perfection, so that Claire could be standing right in front of an oncoming train and still insist that everything was goi...
A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial.
Studying Lydia. Are you really sure you want to see it? For the first time, Lydia felt real trepidation about the movies.
Sporks
Membership consisted solely of sitting around and grousing about how much things had changed for the worse. All they could talk about was the good old days—how much better things had been before the c...