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1 " You save yourself or you remain unsaved. "
― Jennifer Hillier , Jar of Hearts
2 " You know those FBI shows on TV? Where they do the profiling?”“Yeah.”“Cops hate that stuff. While it's all well and good to sit behind a desk and have assigned characteristics and fancy medical names for criminals,” Jerry said in a prissy voice, “at the end of the day, you just don't know what anybody's gonna do. You gotta prepare for everything. Human beings are unpredictable. After three decades with PD, I still get surprised. "
― Jennifer Hillier , Creep (Creep #1)
3 " You know what it’s like having a child? ... It’s like your heart walking out the door on two legs, vulnerable and unprotected. It’s scary as hell. "
― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets
4 " Who would have thought that who you love and who you feel safe with might not be the same person? "
5 " Living a life that isn’t meant for you is its own version of hell. "
6 " Whoever said lying was hard was so, so wrong. Lying was easy. Lying was like a hot knife slicing through room-temperature butter. Lying was a bunch of words strung together in a pretty sentence designed to make the other person feel like everything was fine. Telling the truth, however, was impossible. "
7 " You only get one heart", Walter said to his daughter after the second one ended. He seemed sad, but not regretful. " I gave mine to your mother the day I met her. And she still has it. "
8 " You see what you want to see, not what's there. "
9 " There’s a big difference between a man who genuinely wants to be with her, and a man who just doesn’t want to go home. "
10 " The one term Kenzie has never liked is homewrecker. She is not a homewrecker, and neither was the woman her father left them for.Men wreck their own homes. "
11 " I've learned not to make comparisons. Hell is hell, in all it's incarnations. "
12 " Marin can only imagine what the other woman is thinking. She can feel her judgment oozing through the phone line, because that’s what women do to each other. They judge. "
13 " It’s easier to make spontaneous, life-changing decisions when you’re young and fearless and have nothing to lose. "
14 " He didn’t know whether to kill himself, or someone else. "
― Jennifer Hillier , The Butcher
15 " In every story, there’s a hero and villain. Sometimes one person can be both. "
16 " Love is unpredictable, and love hurts. Trust is reliable, dependable, and solid. Like "
17 " The past is always with you, whether you choose to think about it or not, whether you take responsibility for it or not. You carry the past with you because it transforms you. You can try to bury it and pretend it never happened, but that doesn’t work. "
18 " They say if a missing child Sebastian’s age isn’t found within twenty-four hours of his disappearance, chances are he never will be.This is the first coherent thought Marin Machado has every morning when she wakes up.The second thought is whether this will be the day she’ll kill herself. "
19 " You have to care at least a little to yell at someone, and he has to care about you at least a little to yell back. "
20 " Maybe there was no rewind button for life, but surely Matt could change the channel. "
