Under Currents Quotes
"They owe me for every breath they take, and it’s my decision, mine, to decide how to raise them."
"We’re flying! It’s been hard not to tell you—tell everyone. Friends, neighbors, total strangers."
"I’m going to sit on that porch later with a big glass of wine and watch the sunset, watch the colors spread over the lake."
"I’m not going to prison." But her lips trembled.
"I kept my part of the agreement. Two children."
"He broke Zane’s nose, and his eyes were all swollen and black, and his lip was cut and swollen."
"I’m not going to help you, I’m not going to have you feel obligated to give me a shot."
"You don’t want your bungalows—those homes away from home—to all look the same, to be uniform, like a development. Each one should be unique to its topography, its view, its setting."
"I can’t believe my baby’s ten months old and starting to toddle."
"It wasn’t the work. It was the heart. I didn’t have the heart to keep the business there, or the house, or anything really."
"She’s a therapist. Child and family therapy."
"We’ll be fine. I’m emergency backup. You go, don’t worry about us."
"I’m going to have to go back there, Maureen. I’m going to have to go back."
"She dragged out half a million previous wills, codicils, and all these little handwritten notes attached to them. Dozens of Post-it Notes, with cats on them."
"I’m going to stop looking at the pictures, the drawings, and burn that final figure into my brain so it reminds me why I’m going to stop looking at them."
"Don’t worry. Don’t worry, Graham. You’re free now. We’re free, and we’re together. We’ll be home soon."
"I thought, Well, I can make it work. I can landscape the yard, make it mine. I can just get up earlier to get to work."
"Kung fu?" "Bet your ass. I’ve earned my brown belt by then, so he got worse than he gave."
"It’s all I wanted in the world. But things changed again."
"How do you feel about that?" "There’s nothing for them here but humiliation. He lost his medical license, and won’t get it back. Eighteen years inside. I feel pretty good about it."
"You could never go two days without sex. Who knows better?"
"You can trust Chief Keller. You can trust me and my sister."
"I heard enough to know you’ve got the good sense not to take a fool and bully on for a client."
"She’s not the girl I knew back when she was ten, twelve. She’s not that girl."
"You give in to a bully, they find something else to bully you over."
"We steer clear, and never had any trouble to speak of until the boy built that house."
"After Trent, part of my therapy was group sessions."
"I gave you life. I have a right to take it away."
"We’re making our lives, living our lives, both of us, Zane."
"We’re going to find out if sex whets your appetite or sates it."
"A good heart, she thought, generous and open despite all he’d been through. Or maybe because of it."
"Don’t go there," she murmured. "Come here instead."
"You’re the least needy person I know. In fact, you could use a little needy in there."
"Don’t you dare say you’re sorry. We’re in this together."
"I just went through a bunch of ifs upstairs before I reminded myself ifs don’t matter."
"I’m not an investigator, but I’ve worked with them."
"Well, now it’s a mystery, so that’s interesting."
"I don’t want to believe it, but I’ve been pacing around here, waiting."
"This morning is a stupid, violent, ugly man’s attempt to show he has big balls."
"I’m still pissed, but now we’ve got something to figure out on top of it."
"Sometimes mean doesn’t need a reason, just opportunity."
"You come at me again, it’ll go worse for you than me."
"I’m a lawyer, I can do both at the same time."
"Nothing’s broken. I know what it feels like."
"We’re more than good from where I’m sitting."
"I’m really hoping this is the end of this cycle of crazy."