The Inmate Quotes
"I question every decision I’ve ever made in my life."
"If you are within these walls, you may have made some poor life choices along the way."
"My job interview was over the phone, and the warden was so desperate to hire me."
"This is a mistake. I never should have come here."
"I didn’t want this job. I wanted any other job but this one."
"You pass through the security check down the hall."
"The only makeup I have on is some concealer to hide the dark circles under my eyes."
"I’m supposed to meet Dorothy Kuntz. She’s a nurse here."
"Dr. Wittenburg covers about half a dozen prisons."
"These men are not your friends. These are criminals."
"You need to remember that while most of these men will see you for legitimate reasons, some of them are here to get drugs."
"Never accept any sort of payment in exchange for narcotics."
"My parents would kill me if they knew what I’m doing right now."
"If they knew I was sitting in a car a block away from my house with Shane Nelson, it would be bad."
"‘That can’t be Brooke Sullivan. I’m imagining things.’ But it’s you."
"I was there that night too. He has the scars to prove it."
"I park outside the two-car garage, which is a holdover to the old days."
"Josh brushes his brown hair out of his eyes. He needs a haircut."
"I close my eyes and for a moment, I let myself fantasize."
"The delicious smell is courtesy of the babysitter, who was kind enough to get dinner started."
"There’s no McDonald’s in Raker, so no, we can’t go to McDonald’s."
"I heard the kids are really nice here. It won’t be like back home."
"I used to think Shane was a jerk, but he’s not. He’s a good guy."
"I’m not great. They’re always out of lidocaine."
"It was stupid. Really stupid. We had just lost a game."
"Never have I ever beaten up a kid so bad he had to go to the hospital."
"Never have I ever been on a date with Tracy Gifford."
"I park outside the two-car garage, a reminder of the old days."
"Never have I ever gotten a hundred on a math test."
"It’s not as scary as you think. Really, it’s just like any other medical job."
"This is not where I want to be right now. At all."
"This is my goddamn house, Estelle, and I'm allowed to do whatever I want with it without having to justify it to you."
"You know, the real estate bubble won’t last forever. You should be smart about this."
"But there was a time I was happy here. In some ways, I spent the happiest years of my life in this house."
"No, I didn’t kill anyone. But I understand you don’t want to hear that you got it wrong."
"All I knew was that I wanted the baby. And I would do anything for my unborn child."
"She and her boyfriend were on some kind of break. We went out two times, then she went back to her boyfriend."
"I’m just waiting for the right person. And Kelli was nice enough, but it wasn’t her."
"I want to be with someone I actually like. Is that so crazy?"
"Something extremely familiar, but not nearly as pleasant as garlic and butter."
"I hear running water, and he’s in there for quite a few minutes."
"I feel kind of guilty that my family is eating up his entire social life."
"Get your homework done," Tim says, "and tomorrow we can go to the park with your bat."
"I thought Josh might cool to Tim after finding out that he wasn’t secretly his father, but that hasn’t been the case at all."
"We might be safer if the four of us stay together. After all, the killer can’t get all of us."
"I don’t know what to say. Even if Shane had a sharp pair of scissors in his drawer, I don’t know how I would feel about using them."
"You can’t end a sentence with a proposition."
"You think of him as a friend, and he’s in love with you."
"I touch the snowflake necklace, remembering how pleased he looked when I opened the box."
"You need to have an adult night out, she insisted."
"I feel around for the drawstring to turn on the light bulb. After grasping around blindly for about thirty seconds, my fingers make contact."
"It’s dark enough down here that I am nervous about the placement of my feet on the ground."
"Does Merlot go well with spaghetti and meatballs? I have no idea. But it will taste good and give us both a nice little buzz."
"Just as I’m about to go back upstairs, I notice a gray tarp rolled up on the floor of the basement, in the corner of the room."
"I stare at the foot sticking out of the tarp, unable to comprehend what I’m seeing."
"He’s been toying with me all this time. That sandalwood aftershave—he must have known how I felt about it."
"Tim is sick. I never realized it until this moment."
"I had no idea, of course. From my end, he seemed like the perfect boyfriend."
"Shane stares at the menu for like ten minutes, his eyes huge, and he ends up ordering more food than I’ve ever seen him eat in one sitting."
"I made a terrible mistake and trusted the wrong person."