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1 " Forever was never as long as you thought it was. "
― Karin Slaughter , The Kept Woman (Will Trent, #8)
2 " If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend. "
3 " I still want it to die. Like immediately. With fire. "
4 " Some people are born with a hole inside them. They spend their lives trying to fill it. Sometimes it's pills, sometimes it's Jesus. "
5 " He shrugged. “Are you going to answer me?” “You told me to shut up. "
6 " If you love someone, you don’t go out of your way to hurt them. You don’t torture them. You don’t terrify them or make them live in constant fear. That’s not how love works. It’s not how normal people work. "
7 " Will had underestimated the man’s doucheness. Faith could smell it coming off him like damp in a basement. "
8 " Rippy’s. Get in the car. Drive to the motel. Wait for me. "
9 " sporks "
10 " That's how it's been happening since Jesus lost his sandals. "
11 " Faith gripped the steering wheel. “I hate rape cases. You don’t throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, ‘Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before? "
12 " Right. And when we asked the other inmates why she did it, they said that girls had been stealing her stuff. Not just her commissary. She’d put down a pen and the next thing she knows, it’s missing. She’d take off her socks and they’d disappear. They even stole her trash. Why do you think they did that?’ He shrugged. ‘To be mean.’ ‘To make her understand that nothing belonged to her. That no matter how important or inconsequential, they could take away anything at any time, and she couldn’t do anything about it. "
13 " badness doesn’t come all at once. The dominoes fall over time. You hurt someone by mistake and they let you get away with it. Then you try hurting them on purpose, and they still stick around. And then you realize that the more you hurt them, the better you feel. So you keep hurting them, and they keep hanging on, and the years roll by and you convince yourself that the fact that they still stand by you means that the pain you cause is okay. "
14 " Come on, Mitchell.” Collier was like a puppy nipping at her heels. “I know you checked me out. What’d your mom say?” Faith made an educated guess. “That you’re cocky and prone to mistakes.” He grinned. “I knew she’d remember me. "
15 " I hate rape cases. You don’t throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, ‘Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before? "
16 " It’s the curse of the motherless child. We seek comfort from the very people who do us harm. "
17 " Their husbands were not attracted to the groupies because they were hotter than their wives. They were attracted to them because they were groupies. It was a hell of a lot more fun to be with somebody who thought you were perfect than it was to be with a woman who wouldn’t put up with your shit. "
18 " nothing in the house. I’ll need to shower "
19 " There was only one Peyton Manning. "
20 " Going outside was like walking straight into the mouth of a yawning dog. "
