Amanda McKinney > Quotes

“He’s good at that. Listening when he should, speaking when he should. A rare quality in a man.”
― Amanda McKinney, A Marriage of Lies

“When you can’t control what’s happening, you control how you respond.”
― Amanda McKinney, The Raven's Wife

“…she wanted to peel back the layers—the many, many layers—that made up Eli Archer. Remove those bricks one by one until the real Eli bared his soul to her. She had a feeling the real Eli was much different than the man sitting next to her. That maybe he’d forgotten who that man was.”
― Amanda McKinney, The Shadow

“Although I have a television and several Alexas in the cabin, I rarely turn them on. Too much emotion in modern entertainment. Crime and evil on television, tears and heartbreak on the radio. I’ve had enough of both to last a lifetime.”
― Amanda McKinney, The Raven's Wife

“We have to experience life, Rowan. Not just make it through, but live it.”
― Amanda McKinney, A Marriage of Lies

“Louisiana summers aren’t for the faint of heart.”
― Amanda McKinney, The Lie Between Us

“In that moment, all my worries, my pain, my sadness, my anxiety, lifted from me like a suit of armor being shattered into a million little pieces. I didn’t worry about control, because he had it. I didn’t worry about my safety, because he had it. I didn’t worry about anything—because he had it.”
― Amanda McKinney, Buried Deception

“When you grew up the way I did, material things become far more than simple necessities. Each was coveted, guarded, hung on to with bloody fingernails.”
― Amanda McKinney, Rattlesnake Road

“That’s what no one tells you about grief. That it never really fades. Instead”
― Amanda McKinney, The Perfect Murder

“threaded”
― Amanda McKinney, A Marriage of Lies

“wooden”
― Amanda McKinney, Cabin 2

“obliterates everything you thought you knew about yourself. The kind of love that seems to change you on a molecular level. There is no life, none worth living at least, without this other person. It’s both terrifying and thrilling at the same time.”
― Amanda McKinney, A Marriage of Lies