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101 " Nothing makes a person feel worse than knowing you’ve inspired pity. It’s a knife in the chest. A scalpel across the neck. "
― Gregg Olsen , The Sound of Rain (Nicole Foster Thriller, #1)
102 " Our coating, our shell, our packaging—however you want to think of it—is the first thing we see when we wake up. It’s the first thing we bring into every interaction. People look. Judge. A split-second determination is made that can and does impact who we are and what people make of us. Being who you are starts with the physical. "
― Gregg Olsen , The Hive
103 " Mary Kay would come home after being two hours late and sit in her car for a half hour and go through mail and papers, and I'd be just sitting there waiting to go home. After the kids were sleeping... I was just sitting there. She would irritate me.~Angie "
― Gregg Olsen , If Loving You Is Wrong: The Shocking True Story of Mary Kay Letourneau
104 " Social media owned the promotion of anything worth doing. Or, apparently, worth dying for. "
105 " Her perpetual despondency preserved forever in black and white. "
― Gregg Olsen , If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
106 " across the silver Crossfire lighter that felt so good in his palm as he let the cool evening air pour over his handsome face. "
― Gregg Olsen , Victim Six
107 " And since you’ve never talked about it, you don’t know even how to really frame your thoughts. You fear that your words will tumble out in a way that will only make things worse. "
― Gregg Olsen , Lying Next to Me
108 " 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). "
109 " A bent toward sadism forms during certain associations in early adolescence, coupled with a callous temperament that needs control and lacks remorse. Even so, more than one-third of sadists report discovering their perverted propensities well into adulthood; they enjoy the sense of authority that arises from having their way with a vulnerable and submissive human being, and their fantasies grow increasingly more sophisticated and perverse. Because they seek stimulation, they become quite inventive in the types of cruelties they inflict on others. The usual nurturing that accompanies parenthood means nothing to them. "
110 " I know, right?” Angelina says. “I don’t even think of her as being deaf. I’ve always thought of her as just being Elena. She was born that way and Mom and Dad raised her—raised all of us—to just see that as a trait, like hair color. Something that didn’t define her or us. "
― Gregg Olsen , The Weight of Silence (Nicole Foster Thriller, #2)
111 " physically "
― Gregg Olsen , Snow Creek (Detective Megan Carpenter, #1)
112 " She later said that she had only told the police “like ten percent of the bad stuff.” Investigators, however, understood that 10 percent of a nightmare is still a nightmare. "
113 " It had been a quiet day in the Kitsap County Morgue, which meant it had been a good day. No one who worked there ever cursed their jobs because there was “nothing to do.” An empty chiller meant a day without carrying the hurt of someone else’s loss. A child. A wife. Even a friend. "
― Gregg Olsen , The Bone Box (Waterman and Stark, #0.5)
114 " Randy had an inkling that something else was afoot. Shelly’s father appeared too eager to pass his daughter off to another man. "
115 " Sometimes hurt so deep gets buried by hope. "
116 " Red hair framed a face with a freckled nose, and her blue eyes had thick lashes like the undulating fringe of a sea anemone. But to Lara, the kind of beauty Shelly possessed was like that of nightshade berries. They appear to be delicious but are actually dangerous. "
117 " Silent screams are the most gut-wrenching of all. "
― Gregg Olsen , The Last Thing She Ever Did
118 " horrible scenes with me before and seemed okay. I would ask him, but I don’t want to see another "
― Gregg Olsen , Water's Edge (Detective Megan Carpenter, #2)
119 " It didn’t take too much longer for Randy to decide that he couldn’t take it anymore—no matter how much he loved Nikki, he couldn’t ignore that his marriage, which had started on tenuous grounds, was now falling apart. "
120 " Humor was the curtain she put around everything. "