Someone Knows Quotes
"Allie gripped the wheel, heading to the cemetery. The death was awful enough in someone so young, agonizing because it was a suicide."
"First time hanging with the cool kids. First time getting drunk. First time being kissed. First time falling in love. And then the gunshot."
"Allie approached the cemetery entrance. She knew the others would be there. A reunion of co-conspirators."
"Yoga and meditation were no match for a guilty conscience."
"The cool kids believed their secret was going to stay safe forever, but they were wrong."
"The real Jill wasn’t a saint, but something much better. A big sister."
"If Jill was dying on the outside, Allie was dying on the inside."
"The Garvey family breathed Jill every moment."
"Every morning, Jill took antibiotics in pill form, and Pulmozyme and albuterol through a nebulizer."
"Jill’s coughing was the background noise of her childhood."
"Everything’s about sides. You used to be on mine and now you’re not."
"Bullets are for shooting, and all I wanted to do was shoot."
"You don’t have the right to shoot in residential areas with illegal handguns."
"I just love that we get to spend this time together, truly quality time."
"I’m dating myself. Oh well, somebody has to these days!"
"This is a great crowd. Enthusiastic, that’s what counts."
"I can’t, when I look at what it cost. All it cost."
"You blew the whistle on your sleazoid husband."
"What do you care? I have the right to do what I want!"
"Don't worry about it. I figured that out. That was my plan."
"I'm not worried about Allie. She's too chicken to say anything."
"You have to play, Kyle. We played, so you have to play."
"I should’ve made you do it or done it myself."
"I'm so sorry this is happening all over again, and to you."
"I'm speaking from experience because it did happen to me, and to Kyle. It ruined our lives."
"But we didn't do anything wrong, Mom. We have to stop running."
"We didn’t submit him in advance of the game—so we submit him now—he needs a shirt—I got one in the trunk."
"Be nice to your best friend, like you would anyway."
"You were supposed to be looking out for me. Instead, you got me mixed up in this awful thing."
"Don’t tell anyone and don’t IM it. We have to chill."
"The police are going to think it’s a suicide."
"My dad can’t give your dad money he doesn’t have."
"Fingerprints only matter if they have a match in the computer, like on TV, don’t you know that?"
"You didn’t smell anything. Don’t be so dramatic."
"He shot himself because his pervy dad was in the newspaper."
"The coroner has found that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the victim’s temple, self-inflicted."
"You have to fight this wallowing you’ve been doing."
"I have every right to be here! David would’ve wanted me here!"
"We can’t know the truth. We can’t even agree on what happened."
"I didn’t want to disrupt his life. I wanted him to live the way he wanted to live."
"His family didn’t know about me, or us. They found out when I called them to say that he was dead."
"He used to tell me about growing up with his dad, and the pressure, like, his father wanted him to be a major tennis star, and he was obviously homophobic."
"It’s because you can give all the love you have, with none of the worry about spoiling them. You’re supposed to spoil them!"
"The law can’t tie it up in a bow for you, and neither can morality. Your friends are content to let it lie. You are not."
"Punishment serves many purposes. Punishment expiates guilt, identifies a wrongdoer, and protects us all."
"The only other relevant statute is Section 2505, causing or assisting a suicide, but you’re chargeable under the statute only if you intentionally caused a suicide by assisting or by deception, which you did not do."
"The law is about apportioning responsibility with precision. The criminal law calibrates it by degrees. Simply put, the punishment you gave yourself does not fit the crime. It is far too excessive."
"You did not load the gun. You did not supply the bullet. You did not supply the gun. You did not hand the decedent the gun."
"She was his dream girl, his whole life. The sight of her had brought it all rushing back."