E.A. Aymar > Quotes

“Someone killed her.'
A quick inhalation. 'Are you sure? Maybe it was a heart attack or something?'
'Only if her heart attacked her face.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“After everything she was going through to help these women, everything that had haunted her career, now to discover that Markus had used her to find and seduce vulnerable women . . .”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“What’s that mean?” “Hell, lady,” the stranger said. “I just told you your brother’s dead, and you don’t give a damn.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“Isabel thought about Victor’s voice over the phone, the damage to his eye. Anger flashed like lightning. “My name is Isabel. And whoever did this is going to pay, and pay dearly.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“Like Markus’s cruel womanizing. His emotional and physical violence. That fucking ego. All while singing behind a facade of purity. Nobility.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“All this money, and you can’t buy a fucking ounce of decency.” “You don’t even know me.” “Let’s see . . . a women-beating drunk who sleeps with abused women and no amount of money can ever change him. Is that close?”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“This mess couldn’t have been more representative of Jessy, Melinda realized, remembering the other woman’s scattered thoughts and unpredictable behavior. Jessy had always been a bit peculiar.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“You’re not even here for Mom. You’re here because you’re pissed off that I caught you and almost showed the world who you really are.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“But Markus had been murdered. And murder changed death, complicated it. Murder made Markus a victim, a helpless victim against violence and rage.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“Used to poverty and loneliness and callous men and the lingering threat of James.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“Death is the opposite of desire,”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“Considered how scared she’d been during her short pregnancy as a warning sign, an emotional hint that their relationship was far more ruinous than she realized. But it was just a thought, different from how she’d felt the other times in her life when she’d firmly ended a relationship with some man. And she’d always firmly ended relationships.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“This life was something that had seemed destined for Melinda. A handsome partner, upper-middle-class living, a pair of nice cars, the American fairy tale. Emily and Markus were different.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“There was something wrong about this, unforgivable, about choosing sin after someone had been murdered. Melinda knew it as she showered, as she applied her makeup and dressed and examined her face in the mirror.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“You can’t handle it,” Markus said distantly. “They chose me. Mom and Dad chose me. Jessy chose me. Everyone chose me. And now these women are choosing me. Instead of you.” “Those women are hurt.” “They’re mine.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“He would live, and Emily’s father would use what connections he had to help her avoid jail or any long-term consequences, but she was never allowed back to that campus. Or back into Crystal’s life.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“She recognized his tone. It was the bitterness when men felt the world had turned against them. And only them.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“Depression was starting to overwhelm her, like a vulture perched over her body, its beak digging into her soul.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“The kind of home single men often lived in, one in desperate need of personality.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“For all they knew, there could be a group of people called Three Strikes, taking down the Winters family one at a time.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“Like a Jackson Pollock painting,” Rebecca said, “but with words instead of paint.” “You mean a masterpiece?” Emily cried out delightedly.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“I made it, and you’re nothing. And you were always the smart one. You were always the good kid. You loved making me and Em look bad. Now you can’t stand that one of us is doing better than you.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“It reminded Melinda of the day after the 9/11 attacks, when people overwhelmingly, unironically, loved each other.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“And her uncle. Determined to control her under a guise of concern. Emotionally distant and secretive but always present.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“Carla nos dijo que no hablás mucho con tu papá.” “Cierto.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“She barely made enough to cover her rent and food, not to mention her truck payments and a pair of insurmountable credit card bills. Often Dani felt like her debt was a giant chasing her, his footsteps smashing the land.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“Emily felt so disconnected from the small Central American country she shared blood with, the language she used to know so well fading like the feeling of a last kiss.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“As Isabel had expected, Melinda was taken aback. People didn’t do well with a sudden deadline, even one arbitrary or artificial. Subconsciously, they responded to the urgency”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“You don’t get to decide who’s a hero and who isn’t, Mel. Not after you abandoned all those women.” “I’m sorry?” “All those women, trying to start new lives. And you just stopped working with them.” “You mean when I left social work?”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“She did it too much, of course, to a dangerous level of avoidance and lack of self-awareness. But, right now, Melinda felt it was a better defense mechanism than anything she had.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers