Tessa reached out and took her hand. Can I tell you something?As long as it’s not advice on chasing after a married man.She squeezed Sara’s hand. I’m really in love with my husband.Sara gave a careful...
Sweetheart, I know you’re an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful. Claire
Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right.
She took a deep breath and asked, I’m sorry, Captain. I’m feeling a bit discombobulated. Can you please start from the beginning and tell me what happened?
She had told herself when she put on her sweatpants this morning that she was going to the gym, and she had gone near the gym, but only because there was a Starbucks in the parking lot.
She had looked at the movies again—all of them this time. Claire had rigged up Paul’s laptop in the garage so she wouldn’t have to sit in his office. Halfway through the first series of movies, she’d...
People didn’t believe in you unless you convinced them that you believed in yourself.
No one understood striving for second place. It was un-American. She just wanted peace,
It’s always sad when someone dies of a cliché.
It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were old...
Inside, he had forgotten what it was like to hear a woman’s voice, listen to the sort of complaints that only women could have. Bad haircuts. Rude store clerks. Chipped nails. Men wanted to talk about...
I've always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart.
His voice had changed again. He liked this. He liked seeing her squirm. He was absorbing her fear like a succubus. Lydia heard an echo of the last words Paul Scott had ever spoken to her: Tell me you...
Claire looked at the anniversary painting again. She thought about Paul as a child. She’d seen pictures—his winsome, toothy grin; the way his ears poked out from his giant head when he was six and sev...
Claire joined her, absently watching a lone squirrel hop across the decking and drink saline water from the pool. Asking what to do next was a loaded question, because what it all boiled down to was w...
All of your friends told the sheriff that you danced because you loved dancing, not because you were trying to attract men.
A woman can run faster with her skirt up than a man can with his pants down.
That police captain, Jacob Mayhew, dropped
Somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on.
Small woman, maybe five-three on a good day. Her attitude filled the room, and she walked with a swagger that rivaled a bullfighter’s.