It seemed to him that if you planted the seed of doubt in people’s minds, they were more likely to take a look at new growth and yank it out by its roots as a potential weed, when it could very well have turned into something as harmless as a daisy.
Home is the place where you know where the silverware lives, where the cups hide, where the clean plates go.
Taking credit for what a child did well also meant accepting responsibility for what they did wrong.
Piety and pity were a little to close to each other for my tastes.
Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he’d promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again.
Like Daniel, Jason had learned the hard way that we are never the people we think we are.
The feeling that she was going to explode, that she was too big for her own skin.
If you chose to stop a loved one’s suffering – either before it began or during the process – was that murder, or mercy?
It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.
I don’t really understand this. When you have so many people, each one inevitably fascinating, why would you limit yourself to only those like you?
She threw words at me like handfuls of mud, and now that they’ve dried, I can brush them off.
I started to wonder what it might have felt like to live your life in a place someone else had carved.
Nobody’s birthday.
What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care.
Why bring up something that hurts so much, if it’s not going to change anything?
He wondered why, after years of wanting to stand at the very top, he felt so goddamned empty.
Jordan pinched the bridge of his nose. ‘The only decent piece of trivia I know is that it’s against the law to cross the state boundaries of Iowa with a duck on your head.
But he wondered how very different two worlds had to be before they kept people apart.
Revenge, in theory, throbbed with adrenaline and was clean with conviction. In reality, it was rushing into a house on fire, and forgetting to map out your exit.
Every holocaust starts with an ember. You just have to know what to look for.