“She had spent considerable time writing the letter. The younger generation, with all of its tweets and Facebook and cryptic texts and emails where no actual language or grammar were involved, would never have understood taking the time”
― The Forgotten
― The Forgotten
“Cathy gets up early to clean the house every Saturday, no matter what. It could be her birthday, it could be the morning of the Rapture—Cathy will get up early on Saturday to clean. She says it’s cathartic, it sets her up for a good weekend, and because she cleans the house aerobically, it means she doesn’t have to go to the gym.”
― The Girl on the Train
― The Girl on the Train
“It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever done, it’s not as if I fell over in public, or yelled at a stranger in the street. It’s not as if I humiliated my husband at a summer barbecue by shouting abuse at the wife of one of”
― The Girl on the Train
― The Girl on the Train
“They’re both black. I don’t like to cut perfectly fine coffee with cream or sugar.”
― The Innocent
― The Innocent
“Narrow slippery trails crisscrossed it from every direction, all leading down to Junior Creek, which flushed the bottoms on down into the Tombigbee River,”
― Desolation Run
― Desolation Run
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