Local Woman Missing Quotes
"She listens to his lame lies, his same, dispassionate Sorry I’m late, buts he reels off almost every night."
"The more specific he is, the more sure she is of his betrayal."
"When people do dumb shit like this, they always wind up dead."
"He isn’t the first man she’s cheated on her husband with. He won’t be the last."
"The night is quiet. It’s the only time of day she looks forward to."
"I hear footsteps. They move across the ceiling above my head."
"It’s pitch-black where we are. The kind of black your eyes can’t ever get used to because it’s so dang black."
"Gus and I play chicken with ourselves sometimes."
"The sounds upstairs are my best measure of time."
"I don’t know how old I am. I don’t know how long they’ve been keeping me here."
"I’m not the same person I was before that man and that lady stole me."
"If you’re worried, Josh, I don’t think a call to the police would hurt."
"We wanted ours to be different. But I could tell something had her down lately."
"We never have the luxury of powering it down at night, because a client might need me."
"I’ve agreed to the pepper spray, to downloading some app on my phone that tracks my whereabouts all of the time."
"Labor and delivery can be overtaxing. The long, unplanned hours, the physical and emotional fatigue."
"It’s heady and exhilarating from time to time, but also the kind of career that can run someone into the ground."
"Meredith is a wonderful doula. There isn’t anything she wouldn’t do for her clients."
"The mother was exhausted. But Dr. Feingold wouldn’t listen; he wouldn’t be told what to do."
"No one goes to him. We all stand by and let him have this cry."
"We can’t stand around and mourn Meredith’s loss when we have Delilah to find."
"Tears of relief that it’s Shelby and not Meredith."
"You’re here in the same room as me. You’re home."
"But how would I know what they do when left to their own devices?"
"You passed on a soft, warm bed to come sleep on the cold, hard basement floor."
"I reach for the phone. I glance down at it, the light from the screen burning my eyes."
"We need to find them soon, if it’s not too late for them already."
"I can’t put myself in harm’s way for Shelby’s sake."
"It’s like walking into a wall. It’s hard to walk at all."
"I hope you haven’t forgotten about me. Because I haven’t forgotten about you."
"The thought of this man touching me, of his fingers inside me, makes me nauseous."
"I’ve never lied to you," I say. "I’ve been keeping secrets from me, keeping me in the dark."
"If I told you that nothing has happened between Marty and me, would you believe me?" I ask.
"Nothing has happened between Marty and me in eighteen years."
"Maybe it’s time that I set my work aside and focus on my own family for a change."
"Because Mommy said so," feeling guilty for losing my patience with Delilah.
"I’m so sorry that we didn’t tell you," I say in a last-ditch effort to apologize.
"I hope you rot in hell, Meredith. I hope you both rot in hell."
"He was the one who called 911. He was the one who spoke to me, keeping me calm and awake."
"Dance with me," Josh says. "Someone has to go first."
"I love you more than anything," he whispers in my ear.
"Let's go." I want more than ever to be alone with Josh.
"Do I really need a reason to spend a night with my beautiful wife?"
"But it’s my birthday." She dances alone beside us, hands in the air.
"Wake me up when you get home. If you know what I mean."
"Look at that," Bea says, pointing upward. The streets of town are tricked out with a million tiny white lights, like stars.
"You need to keep your shit together, Meredith," Bea warns, "for a little while longer."
"You can’t do this, Bea. You can’t do this to me."
"Please just take me home. We can forget this ever happened."
"You don’t want anything to happen to Delilah, do you?"
"Don’t do anything stupid, Meredith. I will be just outside watching."
"The motel room is squalid. The carpeting is stained. The plaster flakes off the walls."
"I’m not messing around, Meredith. I need you to write it down."
"You understand, this needs to look like a suicide," Bea says.
"If only you could have kept your mouth shut, this wouldn’t be happening."
"You were my friend." She cries. "Why couldn’t you just leave it be?"
"For the first time in days, I think that I could sleep."
"No matter how many times I do it, it never gets easy or routine."
"She’s gone. She’s run away," and it’s all so similar to the night Meredith and Delilah first disappeared.
"Please, I silently plead, don’t let him lose her again."
"Forgive me. I didn’t mean for any of it to happen."
"I didn’t have another choice. If I let her go, she would have told."
"They say time heals all wounds. Josh, Delilah and Leo are evidence of this."