Blood Sugar Quotes
"Panic started to set in. A panic with flailing arms, jerking legs, and lungs fighting against themselves."
"A calm resolve filled my chest, followed by a burst of gold-glitter excitement."
"The ocean delivered him onto the sand, not wanting to play with a dead toy."
"The warmth of the air was only trumped by the warmth of skin hugging skin."
"I watched as he spilled the powder onto the newly acquired mirror."
"Guilt is not an intrinsically helpful emotion for future decision-making."
"I felt awash in joy with a splash of sadness."
"Feeling the alcohol hit my bloodstream didn’t launch me back into some drug-hungry frenzy. It didn’t even inspire me to drink too much."
"He said she had a test the following day and was cramming. I smiled, mostly because the idea of 'cramming' was so unappealing and foreign to me."
"People were always exclaiming, 'I could kill you right now!' or 'I want to fucking kill her!' or the classic joke, 'If I tell you, I’ll have to kill you,' and on and on and on."
"The saddest cases for me, the ones most difficult to put down at night when I was trying to fall asleep while Mr. Cat meowed at the faucet, were the kids who had made one or two mistakes and felt they had already ruined their lives."
"I wasn’t the sort of girl who needed the guy to always make the first move, but with him I felt there was a wall. And I didn’t want to throw myself against it."
"As I watched Jason make his morning protein shakes and measure out his berries, I wanted so much for him to be able to blow out twenty-nine candles and eat a piece of cake like a person with a normal pancreas gets to do on his birthday."
"Some mothers have been known to summon the strength to lift cars off their babies. Others have fled from war-torn countries with nothing but rags on their backs to offer a safer life to their young."
"Life was going on just fine at home without us."
"My emotions couldn’t wait for the fifty minutes to be over."
"I knew that no matter how we individually coped, processing and time were what we all needed."
"I concentrated on the idea that I was lucky."
"I couldn’t imagine what Roman must be thinking. Four dead people."
"I drove to pick up Roman at his hotel, and we headed for the police station."
"And slowly a city divided seemed not so divided anymore."
"Because in the end it was more fun for the public to hate me than to believe me."
"I couldn’t let the public’s perception of me erode my belief in myself."
"We strive to create order in chaos by linking together cause and effect in our search for meaning."
"I knew logically that one event had nothing to do with another."
"I had to wait for Gabrielle to spot me first because I didn’t want her to feel like I was lurking."
"The human brain tries to find connections. Always and constantly."
"I understood this about the human condition from a clinical standpoint, yet couldn’t untangle my own need to piece together the events of my life in search of a master plan."
"One murder every ten years would be the maximum I allowed myself."
"It was my kindness that saved me in the long run, not my cunning."
"We can’t stop all the bullies, but don’t be scared. We can stop being the victim."
"I saw a flash of strength in her eyes. I knew I wouldn’t need to protect Molly in the same way I’d felt I had to protect Ellie."