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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.

He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family.

But they soften you in ways you can't imagine. It's so unexpected. They just smooth out your hard lines.

I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.

People just dump their trash here and don't even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy's gonna do it or something.

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

Her capacity for detail was astounding, if not highly annoying during arguments.

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

No matter what happened to you, no matter what horrors you endured when you were taken away, you will always be my pretty little girl.

Reading is power. Reading is life.

You are an enigma wrapped in a sticky bun.

I hadn't planned on sounding like J.J. from Good Times, but that's the gist.

Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn't right under your nose.

People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

She had felt capable of anything.

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.

Jeffrey felt too blindsided

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

Broken:
Never underestimate the power of a shared history.

I still want it to die. Like immediately. With fire.

It's very important for your life to have meaning. Even on the days it makes you unhappy, you still need a purpose.

The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

My court-appointed therapist would say I was trying to fill a hole." "Is that what you call your vagina?" Claire chuckled under her breath.

No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.

As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.

I loved him. I know you don't want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him.

If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

I had experienced a TIA, which of course further infuriated your mother (she has always been hostile to abbreviation).

Will had found out the hard way that it's nearly impossible to go to sleep with a flatulent Chihuahua sharing your pillow.

When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.

He was safe because she would never really give all of herself to him." "I

A man who has grown up in an orphanage cannot take a dog to the pound.

Even if it is a Chihuahua.

He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up.

The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

Nancy's last sentence is on the last page in your file. There is nothing more we know. As the sheriff might say, we don't have anything farther.

Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

Sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

The spiral stairs looked like a robot's asshole.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

snorted coke because a boyfriend told her

When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.

Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception.

She felt it snap into her head like a slide loading into a projector.

If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.

I'm not somebody who believes in evil.

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful. Claire

Dyadic completion," Paul would've told Claire. "The human brain tends to assume that, if there's a victim, there has to be a villain.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Claire jumped right into the story. "There was a Thunderbolt cable

When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.

Holy shit." Nolan's tone was reverential. Claire had seen men get harder over Paul's garage than they ever got over a woman.

You are my child. I am your mother." Helen sounded resolute. "I won't apologize for doing my job.

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

Forever was never as long as you thought it was.

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

Paul. She hadn't just watched him die. She had taken in his death like a hummingbird drawing nectar.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

Dee came out of her room and gave Lydia the greatest gift a teenage daughter can ever give her mother: she had agreed with her.

Why did it have to be her?

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

It was like she was standing on the beach in the middle of a hurricane.

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you.

[ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

the great thing about lying was people believed it so long as the lie was close enough to the truth. Lena

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.

Place. This is how

Slicing off your retinas and sticking them into

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

cunt on the blackboard.

He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.

Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

Older and she always got to drive. She opened

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.