There’s nothing more boring than listening to successful adults whine about how mistreated they were as children, is there?

Chip, I know you don’t understand this, but I’d take it as a personal favor if you’d stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.

She shot across the rug, flung the door back open, and yelled into the parking lot. “I hope you choke on your blood vegetables!

She wasn’t going to let them make her cry. She’d cried enough self-pitying tears in her life to drown a goat, and all it had gotten her was a big fat nothing. She made herself take a deep breath, but it didn’t help break the traffic jam in her throat. Might as well call a spade a spade. That traffic jam came from shame. There was a big difference between knowing people still hated your guts and seeing it in their faces.

Bobby Tom: You’re supposed to be my assistant, not a baby-sitter! Gracie: One and the same.

Not too much. I never got into killing things.” “Preferring slow torture.” “You.

I don’t care how much evidence the state presented. I’ve never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress.

Men like him should be required by law to carry a heart defibrillator. He.

Is driving me crazy your idea of seduction?

He liked discomfort. It made him feel alive.