Vincent Mcclendon

“Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll”
― Rachel Abbott, Only the Innocent

“Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at things yourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.”
― Anne Perry, The Face of a Stranger

“In the world of murder and mayhem, liars are losers. And they’re usually guilty.”
― J.A. Jance, Trial By Fury

“Erlender thought about Marion Briem and their shared story, which was now at an end. He felt a sense of loss and regret... He thought about their relationship, the experiences they had shared,the story that was part of him, that he could not and would not have done without. It was him.”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Arctic Chill