Don't Let Her Stay Quotes
"Sometimes I wonder what on earth we were thinking."
"I felt so silly, sobbing all over his nice shirt, but the truth was I didn't want to pull away. I felt more safe being held protectively like that than I had in a long time."
"Two months later he asked me out to dinner. Eight months later we were married."
"You’re happy, aren’t you? I worry about you sometimes."
"Family comes first, except that family is nowhere to be found."
"I wish she was easier, because I would love nothing less than to have a warm loving relationship with my stepdaughter."
"He will always choose me over you. And if you don’t believe me, why don’t you ask him?"
"What on earth was that? Didn’t she see me? How could she not see me?"
"You will never be rid of me. Would you like that?"
"Officially, they ruled Diane’s death as suicide."
"I twist my ring around my finger, trying to make sense of what he just said."
"Tell me you don’t believe Chloe would poison Evie. I need to hear you say it."
"I don’t believe Chloe would poison Evie."
"Trust your instincts, Jo. You always have done. Trust them."
"You never recover from this kind of trauma."
"I don't know what else to do for you to like me, Joanne. I really don't."
"Not everything is what it seems, you know."
"All the phones throughout the house were unplugged from their sockets. All of them. Apparently this was a game that Chloe liked to play: unplugging all the phones when her parents were both home, so they wouldn’t ring. She’d done it again, but for some reason… She forgot."
"She wasn’t even there when Sophie died."
"I know you don’t believe me right now, but trust me, you will."
"Don’t you think it’s strange that there was no mention of my mother’s death in the tabloids? On TV?"
"I’ll kill him this time. He won’t get away with it. Evie will be safe. I know you don’t believe me, but that’s okay. Trust me. You will."
"You can’t trust him, Joanne. You can’t believe a word he says. He’s isolating us."
"For Christ’s sake, Jo! Get out of the way!"
"Jo, listen to me, sweetheart. I love you. I would never do anything to hurt you or our baby."
"The man I married, the man I’ve been madly in love with all this time, is a monster."
"It won’t be long now until Richard gets out, and as I hug my sleeping baby, I wonder if we’re going to make it out alive."
"I thought she had come to hurt us. Meanwhile she was trying to save us."
"Just assume the worst, Joanne. That’s what I do."
"I made a promise in that basement, and I’m going to stick to it."
"You thought you could outrun me? You thought I wouldn’t catch you this time?"
"In this short amount of time, she has blossomed into a happy young woman full of hope for the future."