Lou had to believe he’d find something on Winchester if he just took it methodical. Half a mil. Lou thought about knocking again, then lowered his arm and stood there like a stupid ass. Couldn’t even...
The human body was a thing of beauty because so many structures protected the heart, but she realized that the human heart simply could not be protected, not by muscle, not by bone, not by anything.
Sure her attorneys would argue that you were negligent in your supervision of Sam and— Stop. Eric held up a
Kids with anxiety issues were in psychic pain, and nobody knew that better than he did. Anybody could be pushed over the edge, given the right circumstances.
They were the go-betweens, going back and forth to a
Her law firm needed the dough. The slump in the economy had hit lawyers, too, and people had stopped suing each other. Could world peace be far behind?
I’ve read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.
What’s wrong, babe? You sound
They didn't do things the way you would have. They're not you. That's what their declaration-of-independence rants were all about,when you used to fight, and why they kept telling us they want to do i...
She’s only human. Don’t judge her. Just love her.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. —Sigmund Freud
Want to take a special moment to thank my editor, Jennifer Enderlin, to whom this book is dedicated. I came to Jen when my writing life was well-established and my habits somewhat entrenched (if not o...
She’d stopped checking Facebook when the posts about Evan started appearing in her feed, mostly horrible and vile. She was ditching Facebook and going back to real books. Mindy
They drove through the town of Collegeville on Route 29, a winding two-lane road, and continued past colonial vintage houses, then rolling hills and pastured horses. The farmland turned into a vast op...
You haven't lived until you duct-taped a diaper on a dog.
Harry Truman never said ‘Give ’em hell.’ He said, ‘I just told him the truth and they thought it was hell.
Simon Baron-Cohen, The Science of Evil; Judith Beck, Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Louis Cozolino, The Making of a Therapist; Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths; James Fallon, The Psychopath Inside...
Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn’t need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn’t stronger in the broken places. Like any b...
But not in normal people like me. They don’t realize that evil lives on their street. Works in the cubicle next to them. Chats with them in the checkout line at CVS. Reads a paperback on the train nex...
But whose mother are you? Don’t slip so easily into the role of being that kid’s mother. I used to be. But you’re not, anymore. Really? Jill’s chest tightened. What’s a mother, or a stepmother? What’s...
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