Quotes from Amanda Kyle Williams

Sometimes you only get one chance at something. Sometimes that's a good thing too. When that door slams shut on the thing you couldn't live without, what happens next is when the read education begins. You have to figure out how to make some peace with it all, how to have an interior life you can live with. Digging down deep is really never a bad thing in the end, but it will flat-out kick your ass while it's happening.

Damn fool," Mother whispered, and covered her face with her hands. "It's not enough that he spells out Leon on the roof every year in Christmas lights. Now this!" My father was dyslexic but would not admit it.

I needed to hire someone to manage all this, but I dreaded it. It's not like you just hire one person. You hire their family and their problems, their illnesses and financial issues and weird habits and friends. You're forced to share a bathroom with them. It's like sleeping with someone without the benefits.

From the time she was a little biddy thing I always told her: Melinda, don't talk to strangers. But she loved everyone. She was a real good girl.

hold one another close …" I eased through the throng of candlelit faces as the minister quoted scripture and talked about the

went to the window off the porch, and I saw

She'd decided a stranger had walked into the community and violated it, sliced into her world, taken her child away from her. Too much faith had been shattered already for Molly Cochran to allow for the possibility that it wasn't a stranger at all who'd abducted and murdered her child.

You know how sporting events are. No one questions grown-ups hanging around. It's a pedophile picnic." Rauser glanced over at me as we walked back to the car. "That's how you see kids and sports?" "You know me. Ray of sunshine.

interrupted, straightening a stack of papers on her desk, then handing the papers to Diane. "That will be all." "Of course," Diane said with a smile. I watched her leave, then looked back at Margaret. "So he shot him twenty-three times with a Glock nine? He