Love doesn't keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.
Kate had shot a man with a gun very similar to this one. She had been aiming for his chest and winged his shoulder, but as her people would say, closeness only counts in taxes and horseshoes.
Claire picked up the picture. They were at a football game. Paul’s jacket was wrapped around her shoulders. She could recall thinking how warm it felt, how reassuring. The camera had captured her laug...
You couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.
If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.
Yes. Claire was tired of his questions, which were made even more grating by his flat, midwestern accent.
Women with a little bit of power can be much harder than men. Especially on other women. They have to distance themselves from the weakness of their sex. Yes?
I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
I'm not choosing anybody but myself.' Jane was sick of men thinking they could give her ultimatums.
See this with abused children sometimes, where, as a form of self-defense, they’ve learned to read mood and nuance better than the typical child. They absorb an incredible amount of blame to keep the...
She knew what it was like to watch a bad person die, to feel their panic swell to crescendo, to watch the dawning in their eyes when they realized that they were completely powerless. To know that the...
If you have to say you’re not doing something, then you probably are.
She knew that there came a point when your mind told you everything was wrong, but your body betrayed you anyway, reaching out for whatever comfort was offered.
Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.
This women’s lib stuff works for rich girls, but all you’ve got going for you is your face and your figure. You need to take advantage of both before you lose them.
Repeated Jasper’s words, because in the future, if she ever wavered about never talking to her brother again, she wanted to remember in detail everything he had said. She told him, I have the paperwor...
He’s like a spoon—always stirring things up.
Moon was from somewhere up east, the kind of place where consonants took on a life of their own. In addition to this, she spoke loudly and abruptly, two things that were considered very rude to southe...
I’m fine. Will put his hand on Amanda’s foot again. He could feel a steady pulse near her ankle. He’d worked for this woman most of his career but still knew very little about her. She lived in a cond...
Expected him to look like a cross between Colonel Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn.
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