In her defense, her helicoptering tended to revolve around making sure that Dee could take care of herself. LEARN HOW TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH OR I WILL KILL YOU. LOVE MOM.
Her subway card was given to a homeless woman who had thanked her, then screeched that she was a fucking whore.
He always took lateness as being rude. It said to the other person that their time was more valuable than yours.
Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life; it was part of the human condition. How they struggled through adversity proved what kind of people they were.
Dad. I knew that was it. No more holding my hand. No more sitting in my lap. No more throwing your arms around my waist when I walked through the front door or standing on my shoes while we danced aro...
Claire had never thought of herself as an expert in male behavior, but Paul had a point, and not just about men. People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the...
Anything’s legal if you can get away with it. Maggie slammed the locker closed. Welcome to the Atlanta Police Department.
An autopsy was an act of violence itself, the ultimate invasion. Every body tells a story. A person's life and death can be exposed in all their glory and shame simply by looking beneath the skin.
All you could do was wait for death to make you inconsequential. Frank
A person who has been up close when a gun is fired into another human being never mistakes the sound of a gunshot for something else.
Matter most? This is a universal question, because through the days and weeks and months and years after your disappearance, I understood that I did not cherish you enough. I never told you that I lov...
He recognized Donald Trump’s picture on the jacket and assumed it was a get-rich-quick scheme. Obviously, Jake Berman hadn’t taken the man’s advice. Though, considering Berman had lost his job and dec...
Dashboard. She didn’t know the opening lyrics, but she belted out the chorus. ‘Poor, poor pitiful me!’ She nudged Maggie. ‘Poor, poor pitiful me!’ Maggie smiled despite herself. Gail bellowed, ‘P...
Badness doesn’t come all at once. The dominoes fall over time. You hurt someone by mistake and they let you get away with it. Then you try hurting them on purpose, and they still stick around. And the...
You were wrong, she told Paul, because he had been a pedantic asshole who thought he was right about everything. You said I would be dead in a gutter by now. You said I was worthless. You said that no...
Suddenly, quite miraculously, you are a grown-up beautiful woman. You look so much like your mother, but you are still uniquely you. You have thoughts I will never know. Desires I will never understan...
Paul still had feelings for Claire—at least inasmuch as he was capable of feeling anything. He had put the pillow under her head. He’d slid her wedding ring back on her finger. He had taken off her sh...
More time passed, the clock ticking forward when she longed for it to go back
Monte Carlo was blocking the driveway. The trashcan was still on the curb, so he dragged it up to the garage. The motion lights came on, blinding him. Will held up his hand to block the light as he un...
In Abigail’s experience, women certainly loved their mothers, but there was always some kind of thing that lived between them. Envy? History? Hate? This thing, whatever it was, made girls gravitate to...