A Bend In The Road Quotes
"In time, the birds began their morning songs, the trill whistles filling the air."
"Exhaustion had become a permanent fixture in his life."
"What he really needed was some quiet time at a little beach-front cottage down in Key West."
"Loneliness. He was tired of being alone."
"Most things, after all, hadn’t changed after the funeral."
"On the morning of August 29, 1988, a little more than two years after his wife had passed away, Miles Ryan stood on the back porch of his house, smoking a cigarette."
"He held on to other things as well. When they were first married, he and Missy used to have lunch at Fred & Clara's."
"He could stop anytime he wanted. But why bother?"
"It was enough to wear anyone down for a while, but what could he do about it?"
"In the first year after Missy's death, Miles couldn’t even begin to imagine loving another woman again."
"What you really mean is that it’s time to ask her out."
"I think so, but I’m glad you think so, too."
"I’ll explain later," Sarah said, stepping up, "but we got off to a good start."
"I’d like y’all to come out so I can talk to you."
"I had a good time at the game," Sarah said.
"She and I are just friends right now, that’s all."
"Galleries, the museums, concerts. Restaurants that are open past nine o’clock."
"I’d spent my early twenties trying not to get pregnant."
"I don’t need those things to make me happy."
"Didn’t you ever want to move away? To experience something new?"
"I’m not like Michael. I could never be like him."
"I thought you might. Pick you up at seven?"
"Maybe that’s why we get along so well. We see eye to eye on things."
"God, he wanted to shoot him, he wanted to end this now. He owed it to Missy, he owed it to Jonah."
"No... Still, he debated for a couple of breaths before finally exhaling hard."
"This ain’t right. I’m calling my lawyer! You’ve got no right coming in here like this and pointing your gun that way!"
"I don’t care. Otis is going to jail, no matter what happens to me."
"With God as his witness, he’d wanted to do it."
"And one wrong move, from anyone who’d been out there, and he would have."
"He wouldn’t have believed the first story that came my way that promised an answer."
"I wouldn’t have believed the first story that came my way that promised an answer, especially if it was from a guy like Sims Addison."
"Think about who you’re talking about here. Sims Addison."
"I’d probably would have looked for answers on my own, too."
"I know who you are, and I know what you did."
"I wondered when the police would come for me."
"There was life in the words that were written, there was life in the photographs."
"I couldn’t escape that image of Missy Ryan, her eyes focused on nothing."
"I knew it was wrong, but it didn’t seem as if I could control my actions anymore."
"I saw good things and bad things, and always, I looked for a smile."
"I tried to imagine what they were saying to each other."
"I’d sit without moving, waiting to see if Miles and Jonah would finally turn to see who had killed her."
"It was the first anniversary of Missy’s death."
"There is observation and study, and there is knowledge, and though I had one, I didn’t have the other and never would."
"The sound made me jump inside, and my eyes were immediately drawn to Miles."
"Part of me believed that was so. With the compulsion gone, I thought I had put the nightmare behind me."
"The guilt and anguish never really left me. Instead, they had simply gone dormant, like a bear hibernating in the winter."
"I’m not a mind reader. But yeah, I’m worried, I guess."
"What I didn’t realize then was that the guilt and anguish never really left me."
"I didn’t mean for it to happen. I’m so, so sorry...."
"His shoulders shook violently, as if in spasm."
"He wasn’t sure how long he cried, but when he finally stopped, he began to tell his sister how it happened."
"He saw neither love nor forgiveness on her face."
"To fall in love with him and then lose him?"
"I can’t live with never having met Miles."