V.J. Chambers > Quotes

“He ducked away, wrinkling his nose. He didn’t like to be touched.”
― V.J. Chambers, Child of Mine

“Psychopaths didn’t have to kill people, after all. The condition was marked by a sincere lack of empathy and an inability to care about the well-being of others. Psychopaths thought of the world as a giant chess game.”
― V.J. Chambers, Child of Mine

“And I wasn’t certain why I’d gone that route either. Picking out the knife, putting it close to his skin, threatening him? It had all seemed so… natural, somehow, like putting on a well-worn pair of jeans. Still,”
― V.J. Chambers, The Twin Game

“Now, they’re not taking the fact that she’s fingering you very seriously right now, and I told you it was because she was talking about werewolves.”
― V.J. Chambers, The Twin Game

“He was observing social cues and aping them, but he didn’t truly understand them.”
― V.J. Chambers, Child of Mine

“was beginning to think she’d lied about that.”
― V.J. Chambers, The Twin Game

“working”
― V.J. Chambers, The Bone Forest

“Psychopaths didn’t have to kill people, after all. The condition was marked by a sincere lack of empathy and an inability to care about the well-being of others.”
― V.J. Chambers, Child of Mine

“he found”
― V.J. Chambers, The Killing Moon

“They faked empathy, because it made them appear normal to everyone else and allowed them to get whatever it was they wanted.”
― V.J. Chambers, Child of Mine

“When we were conceived, we were one egg and one sperm that inexplicably split into two little girls instead of one.”
― V.J. Chambers, The Twin Game

“He had this idea that autistic people were all like Rain Man. “Borderline retarded,” he’d once said to her. And no amount of explanation of the spectrum or use of the word “high-functioning” seemed to ever get through his balding skull.”
― V.J. Chambers, Child of Mine

“The woods seemed less daunting than they had when I was a teenager, the trees shorter, the undergrowth less thick. I supposed that was the way it went. You grew older, everything got less. I”
― V.J. Chambers, The Twin Game

“The feeling of being utterly alone in the world except for the small tribe of people your own age who were your close friends.”
― V.J. Chambers, Child of Mine

“You and her were meant to be one, but for some”
― V.J. Chambers, The Twin Game