Then we did the best we could, all we could. He was the enemy, Kimberly. took their lives. And God help both of us, but sometimes the enemy is simply that good.
The truth is, genius and depression have always gone hand in hand. Which was why I spent so many afternoons, sitting at the piano, playing and playing, because my father said my music soothed his spir...
The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard.
Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength.
Shit! We’re idiots.
Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions.
Mr. Bosu began to get truly resentful. If killing was so damn easy, his employer should do it himself. Honest to God, a little murder and mayhem wasn't everything it was cracked up to be.
Mac was the romantic. He brought her flowers, remembered her favorite song, kissed her on the back of her neck just because. She was the type-A workaholic. Every day an agenda, every hour a task that...
Je ne veux plus faire de cauchemars. Je ne veux plus chercher à atteindre une petite fille que je ne peux pas sauver. Le monde est cruel. Notre boulot est sans espoir. Je ne sais même plus comment aim...
It’s so much easier to fall in love, and so much more complicated to fall out of it.
Is your father really evil? I heard myself ask. Yes. Because he drank, did drugs? No, honey. Because God made him that way, and he liked it. Your father had an excuse. My father doesn’t.
Is that what you lose over time? Not so much a loss of affection, as a slow clouding of your own sight? We became less and less focal points for each other, and more like pieces of furniture to maneuv...
I don’t know who I am, I say. No one does. Everyone spends their lives figuring that out, even people who’ve never been kidnapped.
God give me the strength to change the things I can change, the courage to let go of the things I need to let go and the wisdom to know the difference. - Bobby Dodge
Families aren’t built in a day. But they can be destroyed in an instant.
Face it, you and Quincy have a genuine meeting of the minds. That's serious shit, Rainie. You can go an entire lifetime without finding anyone who matches like that. I know I have.
COURTHOUSES WERE THEIR own special kind of madness.
Bad people don’t want to deal with the powerful. They prey on the weak.
All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’? Anna Karenina.
When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatri...