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81 " no one can help a troubled person who doesn’t think they need it. "
― Gregg Olsen , If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
82 " I loved my mother because I didn’t know I had a choice. I had to love her. "
83 " I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing.~ Michelle Jarvis "
― Gregg Olsen , If Loving You Is Wrong: The Shocking True Story of Mary Kay Letourneau
84 " And he'd kill Lily Ann Denton, put her in the trunkm and go to arbys. Godm he was hungry. "
― Gregg Olsen , Heart of Ice (Emily Kenyon, #2)
85 " He always told his girl, "If only these walls could talk... the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone's a liar."But the walls didn't talk. "
― Gregg Olsen , Envy (Empty Coffin, #1)
86 " How did we get here?' Sophie asks. 'We drove our cars,' I say, teasing. She makes a face and signals for more wine. 'Funny,' she says. 'I mean to this place in our lives when everything seems so perfect but isn't? "
― Gregg Olsen , Lying Next to Me
87 " Dying, she thought, is the only way out of what is happening to me. "
88 " And he'd kill Lily Ann Denton, put her in the trunkm and go to arbys. God. he was hungry. "
89 " You should have dragged my butt out of bed.""Your butt's too big to drag," Taylor said.Hayley sat on the floor, facing her sister. "That means yours is too. We have the same butt, remember?""Don't remind me," Taylor said. "I see it every time you walk in front of me. "
― Gregg Olsen
90 " She’d done exactly what she’d wanted to do. Making people unhappy was her way of having fun. "
91 " But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who hadn't felt the sudden loss of a child could ever even approximate the stabbing ache that came with every breath.I "
― Gregg Olsen , A Cold Dark Place (Emily Kenyon, #1)
92 " If she pleaded not guilty, David said she could suggest that the boy had been the agressor, or maybe it was all some teenage fantasy that went too far. Maybe the sex never really happened. Mary Kay saw that scenario as ridiculous. Almost laughable. She didn't think it would work. "I'm carrying his baby," she said.Scratch that. "
93 " People gravitate toward danger and drama to show concern, yes. But also to silently count their blessings that nothing like this has happened to them. That being close to the unthinkable takes them off some list that God or fate keeps track of. "
94 " that 10 percent of a nightmare is still a nightmare. "
95 " From the inside, a violent home looks starkly different than it does to outsiders. Children who grow up with cold, narcissistic, or sadistic parents don’t know that a caretaker with the potential for extreme cruelty is not the norm. Even when they see a contrast in the families of friends, they’ve already been robbed of the ability to challenge parental authority. Instead of seeking help, they hunker down and adapt. "
96 " she would abuse me, then the very next day hug me or tell me how I was her baby and she loved me blah, blah. I think it worked like any abusive relationship . . . a person feels trapped, nowhere to go . . . they are abused and then the abuser reins them back in with kindness and the person being abused settles, not quite thinking about the next time they are beat etc. just relieved the abuse is over (for now). My mother was a ticking time bomb . . . "
97 " There’s a singular kind of desperation that links all of us who cannot conceive but think of nothing else. I wonder about us. What has made that message play over and over inside our heads? Is it biology? I want it to be that. I want the reason I sit on the toilet, hoping against hope, to be biological and not some kind of mental disorder. "
98 " Victims who want to get help recognize how difficult it would be to convince authorities of the sadist’s behavior. They know that if they try but fail, the punishment will be severe. So, they often decide to just wait it out and hope they can eventually flee. "
99 " Doing the right thing feels like shit. "
― Gregg Olsen , The Sound of Rain (Nicole Foster Thriller, #1)
100 " My relationship with my own father has put me into the category of women who acquiesce to win approval. "