Susan McBride > Quotes

“Here's to our enduring sisterhood. May it bind us together more tightly that the Lycra in my Spanx underpants.”
― Susan McBride, The Cougar Club

“The only thing that separated the so-called real world from high school was a locker combination”
― Susan McBride, Too Pretty to Die

“Grone, please,” Art said into the whistling microphone.”
― Susan McBride, To Helen Back

“and those of us who’ve been burned keep sticking our fingers in the fire, over and over again.” Over and over and over. Jo”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“antisocial personality disorder. No empathy, a misplaced sense of entitlement, lots of anger issues, and a liar. But her IQ was sky-high.” “Anything”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“wailed when she’d”
― Susan McBride, Not a Chance in Helen

“If drugs could heal what was broken inside her, she’d be an addict. Who wouldn’t? Sometimes life hurt, and you just had to suck it up. It”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“stood on the welcome mat, wearing his old bomber jacket, his boyish features grimly set. Blue”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“In the past few years, the floodgates had opened. Folks had sold their homes in Richardson, Plano, Arlington, Fort Worth, and Dallas, packing up and moving to Plainfield until the population grew at the pace of rabbits on Viagra. The green was slowly swallowed up by concrete, the trees replaced by walls and roofs, glass and steel.”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“to park, and he did. He cut the engine and slung an arm over the wheel, squinting at the brick pens situated at the bottom of each drive that held trash cans with lids. Jo stared, too. “Lisa said she pulled into her garage and didn’t take the car out again until the next morning. But if she’d driven into the garage, she would’ve had to enter the alley, like we just did. She wouldn’t have been on Ella Drive. She would never have seen Jenny at all.” “Maybe she parked in front initially and then moved the car around back later.” “Maybe,” Jo agreed. Or maybe Lisa Barton was a liar. She hesitated, shifting position enough to shove her fingers into her pocket and retrieve the balled-up latex gloves. Hank stared at her as she fussed with them, using her teeth to pull them back on. “You plan on going dumpster diving?”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“Wives bleeding and bruised often denied abuse when police appeared to check out a domestic disturbance. They feared even worse if they put their spouses in jail. It happened every day. “Jenny’s”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“huddled”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“Jenny Dielman out of the way for good and had been waiting for an opportunity to grab her?”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“Then you shouldn’t have a thing to worry about,” Mattie told her, still refusing to let go of the case Harvey had”
― Susan McBride, Mad as Helen

“They had her tested, and she was diagnosed as having antisocial personality disorder. No empathy, a misplaced sense of entitlement, lots of anger issues, and a liar.”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“me for a minute and play devil’s advocate.” She leaned forearms on the table.”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“or two. When women went missing, or”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence

“wrong about Jenny always wearing it. She could have taken it off, packed it away, or buried it in the backyard.”
― Susan McBride, Walk Into Silence