Julia

“From the outside everything looks fine,” the dentist said, “but it’s rotten to the core.”
― Karin Fossum, Bad Intentions

“As long as adults make mistakes and as long as parents abuse, they will create new abusers.”
― Karin Fossum, The Water's Edge

“He had come into Elias’s life when the boy was nearly five, wooing both mother and son with such single-minded determination that Sabine, Lady Isidore, laughingly referred to their courtship as a siege.”
― Makiia Lucier, Isle of Blood and Stone

“I can’t have him at my place, that would never work. We’d murder each other.”
― Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers