Tear Me Apart Quotes
"I'm just depressed. Like, suicidal ideation with three attempts under my belt depressed."
"The hatred in her eyes is so intense it's like a demon from hell is suddenly perched on the bed."
"I am a rocket, a cheetah, the fastest girl on earth."
"You're going to win this battle, Mindy. You're a winner."
"She can turn the emotions off and on at will."
"She wants to know why you and Jasper weren’t a match."
"I’m not judging. I’m just saying, I’m family."
"You’re not in a position to attack me, you know."
"We must do whatever it takes to save Mindy’s life."
"Jasper’s gentle snores and the roaring wind in the trees outside feel like a jackhammer to her brain."
"He took it so well, the news she wasn’t Mindy’s biological mother."
"Lauren will not—cannot—run the risk of losing her daughter to a technicality."
"Everyone who’s ever seen them has been told they occurred in a car accident when she was young."
"The scratch has crusted over. She runs the pad of her finger over it, feels the bumpy line."
"Her secret is safe. She lets out the breath she’s been holding all day."
"I couldn’t sleep, so I thought I’d tend my email. It’s gotten out of control."
"We are a few steps away when she says, 'Oh, crap, I forgot to plug in my laptop. I’ll be right there.'"
"Juliet knows she should leave things well enough alone, but that isn’t who she is."
"But a lie of omission, that is different than an outright falsehood, right?"
"I’m not sure how I feel about the transition."
"How an incarcerated sixteen-year-old is going to be able to handle a child is lost on me."
"We make plans to run away, to a beach, and live in a grass hut and eat coconuts and entertain tourists."
"And I am stuck inside. I hate her as much as I love her."
"He doesn’t move; his breathing doesn’t change. Good."
"You have put yourself in an untenable position, Lauren."
"And he is right; she shouldn’t lie to him again."
"She can only hope that if the whole truth comes out, Mindy won’t hate her."
"The idea of being pregnant is abhorrent to me—the claustrophobia of not being able to escape the sentence of something growing inside you for nine months is too much for me to bear."
"The odds of Juliet finding her are slim to none. Without DNA, that is."
"He answers on the first ring. 'I got permission. Run the DNA.'"
"She realizes she’s handled Mindy so badly. Normalcy, that’s what her girl needs."
"It’s the smallest adult coffin they have, but it’s still too large."
"She might as well have been wrenched from my wife’s womb, instead of torn from her breast."
"I’ve forgotten where my life ends and the evening news begins."
"He was the one who found your wife? You were out of town and came home to find her dead?"
"I think the world is an interesting place, Starr. As for the rest, we'll see."
"I love you, too. Now, fetch me the whisky, will you? I think a little on her gums will help."
"Show me the Milky Way, Mommy. I want to see the candy bars in the sky."
"You guys are really bad at keeping your voices down. I have my phone."
"And how do you like your burger? Well done on the meat, please."
"I don’t know where it came from, or why. Does it run in your family?"
"She’s no dummy, Juliet. She knows a cure might be out there."
"She has a little OCD, too. It’s part of what keeps her focused on the prize."
"I’d only ever water-skied myself, and I thought it was fun, but it was so cold, and I kept falling down because I couldn’t get the hang of leaning forward instead of back."
"It wasn’t like him to get so attached to a stranger, you know?"
"There is no such thing as coincidence when you’re dealing with homicide."
"Typical military household, as far as Parks knows."
"Everything he sees points to a crime of convenience. Possibly even of passion."
"Expanded toxicology panel finds nortriptyline in high doses. Liver test confirms."
"The suspect used the closest available weapon instead of bringing their own to the scene."
"Based on the wound trajectory, the suspect was most likely right-handed."
"He’s been studying exactly what happens. That kid is a seriously smart cookie."
"You have to make her sicker to make her better?"
"I don’t want you to waste any energy worrying about this, Mindy."
"I’ve had more than enough to last two lifetimes."
"I don’t think I have a choice. A man is dead."
"People tend to kill themselves when their more horrifying secrets come out, and many of them do so in a show of strength and fury, taking out people around them."
"The suddenly famous suburban criminal is gone."
"Despite her luck over the years, Lauren isn’t a criminal mastermind. She’s simply a mother whose child is being threatened."
"She’s the kind of woman who says thank you when a stranger sneezes, for Christ’s sake. She’s not a murderer."
"He spends fifteen minutes downstairs with Juliet. If she wakes up, if her mind isn’t permanently damaged and she’s able to understand, he intends to ask her to dinner."
"It is his turn to have a family. It is his turn to have someone to love."
"The sacrifices she’s made for her daughter are worth it."
"I didn’t do what they’ve said, I swear to you. None of this is what it looks like. I’ve only ever wanted to protect you."
"Everything I have ever done is because I love you so, so much."
"The truth, and the lies, the slights and the secrets, the long shadows of Bennett Thompson and Kyle Noonan and Vivian Armstrong—everything that’s happened over the years is irrelevant now."
"The idea that he’s come so far, that he’s found himself again in this mess—it is too much to bear losing anything more."
"There is no difference in these diagnoses than discovering you have diabetes—your body simply doesn’t process the same way another’s does."