Ashley Flowers > Quotes

“What small tragedies their lives had turned out to be.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“It’s not safe for you here.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“The cost of this marriage, she knew, would be keeping those secrets. She just hoped it would be worth it.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“Krissy felt something harden inside her—all these women, their daughters alive and well, come to get off on how benevolent and sad Krissy’s story made them feel. She would gladly murder any one of their daughters right now to have hers back for one more day.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“Her uncle was a good man. He wasn’t like Elliott Wallace. He would never, could never, hurt anyone, let alone a six-year-old girl. And yet, for the first time since she’d been there, that night she locked her bedroom door.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“Krissy knew she should have been grateful to have Jace safe here with her, away from the watchful eyes of the police, but she wasn’t. Instead, all she felt when she saw him was a deep resentment that he wasn’t his sister.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“Over time, my grief has morphed to anger. Now it lives just beneath my skin. Prick it and I bleed.”
― Ashley Flowers, The Missing Half

“The moment felt both monumental and like nothing at all.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“If she doesn’t have kids, what the hell is she doing here?”
― Ashley Flowers, The Missing Half

“Ever since I married Bob thirty years ago, Elliott’s used us like a bank. He wouldn’t call for months on end, and when he did, he’d pretend it was to catch up. But then, inevitably, he’d work into the conversation how broke he was and how he needed money for this or that. Bob always told me I was too soft, that I gave in too easy, but—”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“Three years ago, she’d shaken hands with, sat across from, and listened to the lies of a killer.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“Krissy, Billy, me, and your uncle all grew up here together. I think he goes by his first name now—Luke—but the only thing we ever called him was Dave.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“I’m worried about her. She’s been asking a lot about January. I’m afraid she’ll find out what really happened.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“Patience, as people have told me throughout my entire life, is not my strong suit.”
― Ashley Flowers, The Missing Half

“All I’m saying is—this town puts a label on us the day we’re born.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“The moon came up from behind the clouds, and suddenly, the room was illuminated. That’s when she saw it.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“Wasn’t that why anyone did anything destructive? From feeling unloved?”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“But more than that, I learned years ago that numbness is better than pain. I’ve been not talking for so long, I’m not sure I’d even know how to start.”
― Ashley Flowers, The Missing Half

“imagined it landing with a thud on the front porch, burping out entrails of macaroni”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“sisterhood is knowing someone fully and loving them anyway.”
― Ashley Flowers, The Missing Half

“The residents of Wakarusa, Indiana, could spin gossip faster than a spider spins its web. Each time one of their own did something they shouldn’t—when Abby Schmuckers got caught shoplifting lipstick from the dime store; when the Becker kid dropped out of the 4-H volunteer club; when Jonah Schneider fell asleep and snored in church—the Wakarusa gossip chain would flap their jaws, chewing the tidbit over so thoroughly that by the time they’d finally spat it out again, the Truth was misshapen and unrecognizable, warped into the Story. And because the people of Wakarusa were churchgoing, law-abiding, capital-G God-fearing people, the Story was”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“I Want It That Way’ by the Backstreet Boys.”
― Ashley Flowers, The Missing Half

“She felt, deep inside her, that this was the man who’d killed all those girls, that she was staring at the face of a murderer.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“I pop an M&M into my mouth. I want to track down Ilana from AA and tell her to go fuck herself. Candy will never replace a glass of wine.”
― Ashley Flowers, The Missing Half

“She inhaled a shaky breath. Her face felt wobbly with sudden emotion as though her features were distorting and melting with it.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“Right,” Billy snapped. He had a job where the work never stopped. He had a wife who was restless and discontent, and a son who seemed to hate him. January was his only real bright spot, but he could already see glimpses of the teenager she’d become. In a few years, she’d stop running to him when he walked through the door. “I’m the luckiest guy in the whole wide world.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

“Brad,”
― Ashley Flowers, The Missing Half

“When all you have left of someone are the objects that made up their life, those things become precious.”
― Ashley Flowers, The Missing Half

“Mesquite and Rosie’s Records—Jenna, they share a wall.”
― Ashley Flowers, The Missing Half

“But people here turned on the Jacobs family a long time ago for what happened to January and I think once some time passes, folks will find their way back to that.”
― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here