Missing Child Quotes
"Oh, sure. There’s just not a very big demand for it."
"You’re right. You know what? I have got to sew that ear of his back on."
"Thank God you only have one birthday a year."
"I’m so sorry. I don’t know how this happened."
"That’s no good. Everybody’s coming this morning."
"I know that. And I know you feel guilty about her taking care of your mother."
"You may not believe me, but I meant what I said. You are good at this."
"I assume there is something terribly wrong with you, to take an innocent little boy like that from his family."
"I want to go and look for Geordie with the other searchers."
"I just can’t spend the day just waiting around here."
"I promise you. We’re doing everything we can."
"There’s nothing worse than this. The not knowing."
"I feel like I know her, though. I think she must have been a wonderful woman."
"It seems like more than a person should have to endure in one lifetime."
"The people in the main office looked stricken and uneasy at the sight of Caitlin."
"If they had only been so careful on Monday . . . What’s the use?"
"Don’t be silly," she said softly, avoiding his gaze.
"I pray for Geordie’s safe return every single day," he said earnestly.
"No. Nothing," she said. She could tell that he wanted to flee from her.
"I hear you’ve been harassed. I’m sorry about that. People can be vicious."
"It wasn’t possible to spare her feelings in all this. She had to be matter-of-fact like the rest of these people."
"He’s not here, she thought. If he were here, I would know it. I would just feel it."
"I’m very sorry, officer. I shouldn’t have... I’m sorry I caused you so much trouble."
"I want the truth," he said. "I want the truth."
"How do I know this is true? How do I know anything you say is true?"
"I understand how you feel. I really do. All I can say is that my brother was a kid with . . . a lot of problems."
"Everybody’s got an excuse. I’m tired of excuses."
"Your brother was a criminal. Try and understand the distinction."
"You’re lucky I didn’t call the police on you."
"He loves for sports. He comes and goes as he pleases."
"I don’t want to hear it. I am up to here with all of it."
"She would never do that unless . . . Unless she was running away from something, or someone."
"That’s why I came here today. To try to explain to you."
"I thought of taking him to the emergency room at one point."
"You can scream till you’re blue in the face."
"I can’t bear to find out now that you had admitted a crime you didn’t commit."
"He’s not in his right mind. I won’t allow you to try to interrogate him while he’s in this condition."
"I’m sorry if I upset you, Travis. I didn’t mean to. I’m just upset myself, and this is a hard time for everybody."
"‘I’m not going anywhere with you,’ Westy protested. ‘I’m staying here with my son.’"
"You’re out of your mind. That’s disgusting."
"‘Why don’t we talk over there,’ she said, pointing to the picnic table."
"I never told anybody. But then you said that I had to tell every secret so we could find Geordie."
"‘Stop trying to listen,’ she thought. ‘It doesn’t matter what they are saying. There are people in the workshop and they aren’t going to be here for long.’"
"No, you didn’t. You never did. You never respected me. You always treated me like I was foolish."
"How could you not have known? You were so busy paying attention to your beautiful house and your gourmet meals and your executive job that you couldn’t see what was happening right there in front of your face."
"The first question Dan had answered was to tell the police the whereabouts of Geordie."
"I watched Geordie opening the present and heard my father say that he was going to take him birding, and suddenly I got the most blinding headache and stomach pain that I had ever experienced."
"You put us through hell. I don’t forgive you for that."
"It invades every part of your life. It destroys your... faith. It ruined my marriage to the one woman I really loved."
"I guess he thought he had killed me. He managed to get me in the car and lug me over to your house so that Noah would be blamed."
"I’m not great at forgiveness. Lawyers, you know. We always think we’re right."
"Emily was Geordie’s mother, and her last act had been to try and save another child from a predator."