Quotes from Amanda Stevens

It's hotter than a two-peckered alley cat up in here. Humidity must be close to a hundred.

Rosehill was shady and beautiful, the most serene place I could imagine. It had been closed to the public for years, and sometimes as I wandered alone - and often lonely - through the lush fern beds and long curtains of silvery moss, I pretended the crumbling angels were wood nymphs and fairies and I their ruler, queen of my own graveyard kingdom.

We southerners worship our ancestors.

Let me enjoy my fan-wanking. Your what? Let me arrange the story to meet my own personal needs.

I think some weirdo with a little red wagon is the last thing you need to be worried about in these hills

But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn't die here. They were just forgotten.

Grudges are like superstitions. You know they don't make sense, but you cling to them, anyway." We

In the old days, coffins were equipped with a warning system—a chain attached to a bell on the grave in case of a premature burial. They say at night, when the mist rolls in, you can hear those bells." He glanced over the railing. "The dead down there don't want to be forgotten…ever again.

You can't fight evil in the dark, Sarah. The only way you can truly defeat it is to bring it into the light.

The mind has the ability to influence the body on a subconscious level.

You should make the time. Without the touchstone of family, one leads an imbalanced life.

but Claire was Southern enough to believe that there were things in this world that couldn't be easily explained, things that couldn't be seen or felt, but were no less real and true.

Too many roads leading him back to a woman whose past frightened him almost as much as it intrigued him.

I've often thought madness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

The ghosts of those who take their own lives are considered notorious wanderers. That probably explains the high walls that surround the cemetery. In the old days, they would have buried the bodies facedown to disorient them." "The

Life's too short to live in the past, Amelia. Let him have his ghosts." *

Being brave and being fearless are two different things.

There's a Chinese legend about hungry ghosts. Entities that devour human emotions. Spirits whose sole purpose is to sustain themselves in our realm by feeding on our warmth and energy.

Sometimes I wonder if we can ever really overcome the past. It's what makes us who we are. One small thing done differently and we become someone else. It's like the butterfly effect. One moment can change history. One decision can change everything.

Killers were his raison d'être.

She'd been cautious to the point of paranoid.

I'd be a fool to trust him completely. He was who he was, after all. A scorpion with a treacherous nature." Excerpt From: The Sinner

Someone had once told him that the past, more than DNA or fingerprints, was what made each human being unique.

There was no magical key, no way to run or hide from my legacy. This was the life that had been given to me. What I made of it was up to me.