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His whole relationship with Gretchen was one long postcoital illusion

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

Why did you come here?' Gretchen asked.
'To kill you,' Archie said.
'How badly do you want it?'
'Pretty badly,' Archie said.

In that moment she realised that Archie had never told her anything, never let her see anything, that he didn't want her to know.

One. And I hid it. And Mia Turner found it because they

He's not like his father. She reconsidered this. I mean, he's not perfect. But he's not Scarface.

I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

Maybe the reason we all picture serial killers as schlubby, middle-aged white guys is because they are the ones who get caught.

We lie to each other all the time. Whatever we say, it doesn't mean anything."
"I'll believe you," she said.

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.

Josie, like Gretchen, isn't afraid of blood. What woman would be?

She lied to me today," Archie said.
"A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.

We lie to each other all the time, remember?' she said with an amused smile.
'Tell me,' Archie said, 'and I'll believe you.

There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.

She always felt a little uneasy around women who were more sophisticated than she was.

I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.

A face that looked like it had been whittled out of driftwood.

His father is hinky, she said with a sigh. And by hinky she meant a drug kingpin.

I wanted you to understand right away how committed I am to you ... That you are the only one

You think I'm going to let you burn in hell alone? Just don't shoot the janitor.

There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

Tae kwon do required focus, strength, and endurance, but mostly it required the ability to deal with looking like an ass in public.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.

That was emasculating." "Says the guy wearing the collar.

Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives.

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.

As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.

Sin is rarely without complication

If it were that important, SHIELD would have sent me." "Remember that conversation we had about being more supportive?" "Sorry.

You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.

Gretchen took a beautiful mugshot.

I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.

You're a fucking aberration, sweetheart.

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

I felt like I'd culturally arrived when a character on the HBO show 'True Blood' was reading a hardback of 'Heartsick' at Sookie's kitchen table.

I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.

I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised.

No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don't feel like I'm on vacation unless I'm dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.

She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness.

Derek cleared his throat. "Right. Sorry." He

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.