Jennifer Hillier

“I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.”

She crumples it up into a tiny bead and swallows it. Because the only way to get rid of it is to consume it.

It’s easier to lie when your mouth is full

She’s lonely, hungry for attention and validation, and she needs a warm body next to her

a show he pretended to hate but secretly enjoyed because it meant he could spend time with her?

Children are innocent. They’re small. They can’t defend themselves against predators. They’ve done nothing to warrant any violence against them. Bad things aren’t supposed to happen to kids. It goes against everything we as a civilized society think is acceptable. Your protective instincts kick in.

So the stabbing was postmortem. That’s a lot of rage.”

“Oh, yeah.” Torrance nodded, sipping his tea. “Somebody hated her. Or loved her.”

“Or both,” Jerry said.

The death of a parent is one of the most damaging things that can happen to a child.” Or an adult.

men don’t cheat because the other woman’s better looking. We cheat because we can.

There was no point in arguing with people who were delusional. There was no way to win—their logic defied reason.