Her Mother's Grave Quotes
"Now he was chunky and solid, his blond locks growing thicker each day, with a real personality beginning to emerge."
"There was nothing quite like this feeling."
"If it was a true emergency, Lieutenant Noah Fraley and Detective Gretchen Palmer knew where to find her."
"The first time it happened, her face had taken fifteen minutes to recover from the flush that had reddened her cheeks."
"It’s hard to say how she knew, how her body remembered, but it did."
"She could practically hear his thoughts."
"I told you to shut up. Not one word. What I say is what happened, you got that?"
"You think I don’t know the things she did to you, Josie?"
"Your daddy left us tonight, JoJo. He's gone forever and ever. Do you know what it means when someone dies?"
"I remember Belli. That's what I called her. Sweet thing. Till she got to be a teenager. Then she was hell on wheels."
"Some of them been hurt real bad—only knew a ‘bad touch,’ if you know what I’m saying."
"Well, they don’t tell you much, but if I’m remembering correctly, she was one of the girls that came from a couple of teenagers fooling around who weren’t ready to be parents."
"My Belli was short and chunky, with the curliest blond hair you ever saw. A nuisance it was."
"Josie, this is very important," she had said. "You have to tell the judge what your mother does to you. If you are very brave and tell the truth, your whole life will change."
"I have a girl. You can take her in the back. Do whatever you want."
"Relax, sweetheart. I’m going to make you feel good."
"This is gonna be fun," he said, making Josie’s heart thud so hard in her chest, it hurt.
"You go into the back room with this gentleman and just do whatever he tells you to do, you got it?"
"You could be nicer to a gentleman just trying to be polite."
"You’re talking about Larry Ezekiel Fox."
"I didn’t say I’d do it. I only said I would hear you out."
"Your ad on craigslist, you crazy bitch."
"The day our girls were born was one of the happiest days of our lives."
"From the day my girls were born, I never left them alone."
"It was the only time I ever left them alone with the nanny."
"That was the only time I ever left them alone."
"The day he was born was one of the happiest days of our lives."
"When my daughter was born, I was terrified."
"Andrew made us parents for the first time."
"You’re going to have to help me digest that. Otherwise, I would definitely not recommend that she meet with you or any of your detectives again. Certainly not at the police station."
"What do you think she knows that she isn’t telling you?"
"I can’t promise I’ll answer, but go for it."
"She said she would help me cover it up if I helped her with something else."
"I think she might be sick. She didn’t look well."
"I was blissfully unaware of what a disgusting pervert my husband was."
"You don’t get a happy ending while my insides rot to hell."
"You better learn to walk real quick, princess."
"You made a choice out there in those woods. You could have let me go."