Neither of us will ever move forward if we are always looking back.
Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.
Given enough idleness & time, she could talk herself into either loving or hating the man
Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive.
Claire hung up the phone. She thought about the hours she had spent with Adam Quinn. Hours she should’ve spent with her husband. Hours she would kill to have back now. There
My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls tha...
The warden’s office was all cheap paneling and institutional green furnishings. As Ben would’ve said, Think Cool Hand Luke. Every surface was either metal or fake wood. The warden was fat with a buzz...
She would never feel another man’s touch without wondering whether or not she could really trust him.
She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand
She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage.
She told Rick, The world stops for you when you’re pretty. That’s why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they’re the center of attention. People want to be around them jus...
She asked, Was that really your dinner—two hot dogs and a Krispy Kreme doughnut? Four doughnuts. What does your cholesterol look like? I guess it’s white like what they show in the commercials.
Rippy’s. Get in the car. Drive to the motel. Wait for me.
People just dump their trash here and don’t even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy’s gonna do it or something.
Okay. Good.’ He fumbled for his keys and held them out to her, but she did not take
Kate’s knees felt shaky as she walked across the parking garage under the Barbizon Hotel. Every atom in her body was vibrating at a different frequency. Her lips felt swollen from Philip’s kisses. Her...
It's the truth. I'm sorry to be blunt about it, but girls don't like guys who are doormats. Especially pretty girls, because there's no novelty in it. Guys are hitting on them all of the time. They ca...
Do you realize how terrifying it is to be raped?
Claire’s mug shot was taken against a white background with a ruler that was clearly off by an inch. She wondered aloud why she wasn’t asked to hold a sign with her name and inmate number. Photoshop t...
Claire? Claire blinked open her eyes. She looked up at her mother, wondering why their faces were so close. You fainted. I didn’t, Claire argued, though evidence pointed to the contrary. She was lying...