J.R. Adler > Quotes

“What the fuck does she need a birthday gift for? I’m the one that brought her into this world. I should get a gift on her goddamn birthday.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“She hoped she’d get her strong personality as well, instead of her father’s, who was more concerned about working out in the gym than taking care of his own child.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“It’s not my story to tell. I’ll pass out the cookies, but not the tea.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“No one has to do anything for anyone else… but where’s the fun in that?”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“Well, I got the diabeetus, so I’m at the pharmacy a lot for my meds.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“That’s the thing about grief, it was always there. Even when you thought you’d finally gotten rid of it, it reared its ugly head.”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“He got home after three a.m. this morning?”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“Grief from losing his wife and young son a few years back. That’s the thing about grief”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“This was an environment of struggle and dominance for life. Everything competing for the resources available and the losers eventually collapsing back into the earth, the decomposers returning their life back into the soil to start all over. This place was full cycle, life and death, ugly and beautiful, a place to frolic and play, and a place to…”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“pillar”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“checked on Jessica at least six times”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“That’s the thing about grief”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“Aaron was like a gag reflex. Just thinking about him made her want to throw up.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“like”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“She had moved here because Oklahoma was supposed to be simpler, calmer. But as it turned out, life was complicated no matter where your location was, no matter where you called home. Life was fucking hard.”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“Celebrating a birthday is like saying I’m happy you’re alive and in my life.”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“Kimberley wanted to protect her from the ugliness of the world around her for as long as she possibly could. Two-year-olds should believe in things like Santa Claus and fairies and unicorns, not in the boogeyman, not in evil, and not that their life is in danger.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“Kimberley quickly brushed the memory from her mind before it affected her mood, the roots of her life left behind trying one last time to pull her back into despair.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“Kimberley let out a deep breath. It wasn’t one she had been holding in.”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“Both of them were very different, coming from two opposite worlds, but they were one and the same. Two women raising children alone.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“Work had made up most of her identity. When she stepped away from it, it felt like she was losing a part of herself.”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“Kimberley knew what “feisty” meant. It was what a man called a woman when she was unwilling to do what she was told and used her voice for something other than, “Yes, of course.” Kimberley nodded and took another drink of her beer.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“It wasn’t a firm “nice to meet you” handshake. It was a “hello, dickwad.” A warning.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“Of course. But he’s not getting any baked goods. I don’t bake for murder suspects.” Barb twisted up her face and scurried off.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“at”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“How are your parents…? I mean, as parents?” Kimberley asked. She still couldn’t wrap her head around them not knowing their granddaughter was missing for so long. And after seeing what became of their only child, they must not have been as innocent as they appeared to be.”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“did. It’s hard to criticize the trees when you’re so protective of the forest.”
― J.R. Adler, Dead Woman Crossing

“But as it turned out, life was complicated no matter where your location was, no matter where you called home. Life was fucking hard.”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“They say parents aren’t supposed to outlive their children.”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive

“But you were the one that didn’t listen. You were the one that was difficult. So, they already found the person responsible. It was you. You did this to yourself.”
― J.R. Adler, Last Day Alive