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Sliver of Truth

(Ridley Jones #2)

Lisa Unger (Goodreads Author)

3.68 · Rating details · 4,985 ratings · 520 reviews

Instant New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger's second sensational thriller featuring Ridley Jones "bursts from the starting gate and never lets up." (Booklist, starred review) And it "will force you to stay up past your bedtime, just as you do with the books of James Patterson and Michael Connelly." (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

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Published January 29th 2013 by Vintage / Black Lizard (first published January 2nd 2007)

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Dec 25, 2017 Phrynne rated it liked it · review of another edition

Lol! I could have sworn I had already read book 1 Beautiful Lies but it turned out I hadn't. It didn't matter because the author told me what I had missed in a chatty fashion throughout this book which I felt was very thoughtful of her.

Anyway Sliver of Truth was an okay read and a good story but with an extremely irritating main character. There was much too much examination of her feelings and much too much putting herself into dangerous situations through stupidity. She also had the recovery p ...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Paul rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This sequel to "Beautiful Lies" (which I enjoyed), was a flop from beginning to end. Although I didn't care much for the opening of the book, where the narrator's approach in bringing the reader "up to speed" just seemed annoying, I still at that point held out hope for a good plot. Unfortunately, the plot was merely acceptable, nothing more.

Yet, even with that—the annoying opening and the merely acceptable plot—I might still have at least found the book passably entertaining, had it not been fo This sequel to "Beautiful Lies" (which I enjoyed), was a flop from beginning to end. Although I didn't care much for the opening of the book, where the narrator's approach in bringing the reader "up to speed" just seemed annoying, I still at that point held out hope for a good plot. Unfortunately, the plot was merely acceptable, nothing more.

Yet, even with that—the annoying opening and the merely acceptable plot—I might still have at least found the book passably entertaining, had it not been for the hack job that the author did on the protagonist. Whereas our "heroine" came off as likeable, intelligent, spunky, and even somewhat complex in the first book, here she just comes off as foolish, irresponsible, and just not at all as likeable as before.

Too add to the mess, some of the choices that the author has made for the storyline just seem so incredibly implausible. For example, the ridiculous love scenes that materialize out of the blue at the most implausible of moments. It's almost as though the author couldn't decide if she wanted to write chick lit or a bona fide suspense/thriller and decided to jarringly switch between the two styles, even within the same chapter.

Another trivial, but illustrative, example is when when she has the protagonist—who is on serious antibiotics at this time while also chasing down a lead through a dangerous, unknown nightclub—drinking beer. I don't know if I should be hating the author at this point for such a stupid implausible choice for her character, or hating the character! Like I said, trivial, but illustrative.

The author also takes a lot of time to dish out the protagonist's feelings in very silly and repetetive teaspoon doses, as though spoonfeeding them to a reader having problems either grasping or remembering the emotions at play in the story.

So, for example, you have a line like, "I was still naive enough to believe that somehow everything was going to be okay," the likes of which crop up all over the story. Unfortunately, the average reader is probably not naive enough to swallow these lame lines this many times in one novel.

Or this gem: "I know, I was being pathetic, a total girl. I needed to focus, so I did." Get that? She just did. If only it were that easy for the reader to stop seeing this character as pathetic at this point.

Incidentally, unless a book is atrocious, I generally finish what I start reading, and this was no exception—but, I did have to take a break every few chapters to read something less frustrating and more enjoyable for a while.

In short, this was a major disappointment following the decent and entertaining first book. I would recommend stopping after the first and going out on a relatively high note.
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Dec 13, 2014 MaryG2E rated it really liked it

Lisa Unger’s writing style is so accessible, the words simply flow off the page. Her heroine, Ridley Jones, narrates her story in such an intimate way, she seems to be speaking to me personally.

I had galloped through the previous instalment of Ridley’s adventures, Beautiful Lies, in record time, as it was such a page-turner. To my dismay, I found I was reading this volume so fast that I was not absorbing details which might be important to the mystery. At the halfway mark I had to put the book d Lisa Unger’s writing style is so accessible, the words simply flow off the page. Her heroine, Ridley Jones, narrates her story in such an intimate way, she seems to be speaking to me personally.

I had galloped through the previous instalment of Ridley’s adventures, Beautiful Lies, in record time, as it was such a page-turner. To my dismay, I found I was reading this volume so fast that I was not absorbing details which might be important to the mystery. At the halfway mark I had to put the book down, take a breather, then re-read some of the key episodes again. Even so, I finished Sliver of Truth in just over one day.

Although Unger makes a decent job of recapping the earlier volume in Sliver of Truth, it would definitely benefit readers to begin with Beautiful Lies to get the full meaning of the foundation story. In brief, Ridley Jones, a Manhattan-based freelance writer, discovers that she is adopted in what were unusual circumstances brought about by her beloved uncle, the late Max Smiley. A random act in the street outside her apartment triggers a chain of events which uncovers the details of the adoption, and brings her into contact with shadowy characters driven by personal demons or professional ambition. One of those is handsome, sexy Jake Jacobsen, who becomes her live-in boyfriend.

Having learned the identity of her biological parents by the end of Beautiful Lies, Ridley now finds herself plunged into high drama and derring-do, as certain individuals and the secret services try to determine whether Max is really dead or alive. Cynically, they stalk the naive Ridley, to see if he will emerge from the shadows out of love for his niece, if he still exists. Meantime, Ridley is compelled to conduct her own search for the true meaning of the uncle that she loved so greatly. Indeed Ridley's inquiring mind and need to find answers is key to the quality of this novel. Running counter to the dramatic, fast paced action, are philosophical passages in which Ridley contemplates the nature of truth and lies, Nature versus Nurture, and family relationships. These add an extra dimension to the story.

To me, the first book was more of a suspense/mystery kind of novel, whereas Sliver of Truth is a full-blooded thriller. The author sets a cracking pace, with the rapid escalation of shocks and violence, and with the body count rising rapidly. As I paused mid-book, I wondered if Lisa Unger was channelling the spirit of the late Robert Ludlam! But Ridley is no Jason Bourne, rather she is a pleasant, conventional young woman who is catapulted into a mirky world she could never have dreamt of. She is used and abused by many of the sinister characters she encounters on her quest to find out the truth about her heritage. I hugely enjoyed going along for the ride. ...more

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Mar 15, 2020 Laura Bradford rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Really enjoyed this book. Great writing, interesting characters, twisty story.

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Jan 18, 2010 Jonathan Gramann rated it did not like it · review of another edition

This, along with its sequel Sliver of Truth, are thrillers by Lisa Unger.

Beautiful Lies is a halfway decent story, and I admit I got caught up in it while reading. However, I suspect if I hadn't I would have found a number of inconsistencies in the plot. Sliver of Truth I enjoyed considerably less. For one, the speaker spends a considerable amount of time addressing the reader directly. For two, the speaker offers up a lot of background information that is completely irrelevant to plot, characte ...more

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May 03, 2008 Galen Johnson rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries-thrillers

Ridley Jones is drawn back into her family drama when the FBI approaches her with evidence that her criminal Uncle Max is still alive and is following her. She is drawn into what appears to be a legitimate attempt to snare her Uncle and discover his secrets, but ends up being shot and abducted to England.

Not at all believable, with ridiculous plot twists. Not recommended.

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Feb 16, 2008 Lisa rated it it was amazing · (Review from the author) · review of another edition

Shelves: domestic-suspense, bookclub, contemporary, mystery-thriller, book-club, new-york-city, crime, 5-stars, crime-fiction, book-group

***Major plot spoilers for both Beautiful Lies and Sliver of Truth***

When I closed the book on Ridley, I thought we were done. I knew that at the end of Beautiful Lies there were a lot of unanswered questions, that justice was not served and that a lie from Jake had been left to stand. But, I figured: that’s life. It’s not always fair and we don’t always get what we want, or even what we need. What was important to me was that Ridley was on her way forward, that she had lived to fight another da ***Major plot spoilers for both Beautiful Lies and Sliver of Truth***

When I closed the book on Ridley, I thought we were done. I knew that at the end of Beautiful Lies there were a lot of unanswered questions, that justice was not served and that a lie from Jake had been left to stand. But, I figured: that’s life. It’s not always fair and we don’t always get what we want, or even what we need. What was important to me was that Ridley was on her way forward, that she had lived to fight another day. Sometimes that’s all we get.

But then I started hearing her voice again. And the questions of her life kept nagging at me, as I know they were nagging at her … and at my readers, too, as evidenced by a slew of international email. So I started writing Sliver of Truth.

Sliver felt so different from Beautiful Lies. Ridley was darker, suffering from the depression that was inevitable after all that she’d endured. At the beginning of the book, her relationship with Jake is already faltering. And the question of her father, of her biology looms large in her mind. She’d always thought of herself as Ben’s daughter, the daughter of a good and righteous man. But instead her biology links her to Max, a troubled man, as we come to find out in Sliver, a dangerous man. She is deep in thought about who she is. Is she a product of nurture? Or is there some dark gene dormant, a gene that comes from Max?

In Beautiful Lies, Jake tells Ridley a lie and she believes him (though many of my clever readers did not!). In Sliver, the question of Jake-who is he, where did he come from, what have been his motivations-is addressed, though maybe not totally answered. And then there’s the arrival of a new character, Dylan Grace, who’s goal, it seems, is to destroy what little Ridley has left to hold onto.

Sliver is more international in scope. In Beautiful Lies, Ridley’s story takes place in her beloved New York City, and the fictional area in New Jersey where she grew up. But Sliver takes her from her comfort zone. She chases answers from New York to London. And it is in England where Ridley learns the terrible truth about Max. Or does she? As the title implies, we only see a sliver of the people we know. The worst among us sometimes act with virtue. The best sometimes make horrible choices. There are no villains in life, and so, there are no true villains in my fiction. Just people, flawed, wonderful, disappointing and heroic-sometimes all of those things.

Just as there was no easy way to end Beautiful Lies, there was no easy end for Sliver of Truth. Maybe it’s because Ridley has more to say later; or maybe it is because her story ends for us in the middle of her life. One day we’re with her, the next day we’re not. Like someone we meet for an evening, who tells us her story, and whom we wonder if we’ll see again.

The truth is that I just don’t know what’s next for Ridley, or when I’ll start hearing her voice again. But I will tell you that in Sliver of Truth Ridley answers some important questions for herself. And at the end of the novel, she is stronger, more empowered than she was at its beginning. And that’s something. That’s a lot.

But stay tuned. Because I was sure I’d end Ridley’s story with Beautiful Lies. If Ridley has taught me one thing, it’s this: Never say never. ...more

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Jul 16, 2008 Gloria rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Yuck - apparently a sequel, since she frequently refers to the first book. That is really irritating. In addition, this female protagonist is stupid, so I don't really care what happens to her, except, of course, she survives without a scratch... ...more

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Aug 26, 2008 Maggie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I picked this up at the same time as Beautiful Lies, not realizing that it was a sequel. So when I opened up to the first page and realized that it was, I was pleasantly surprised. There was a bit too much overlap in the beginning to get a new reader spun up on things. You really needed to read the first book to fully understand the second, so her back tracking, and at one point blantantly repeating word for word a few pages of the first book, was annoying. But it ended quickly and this second b ...more

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Jul 23, 2020 Mel rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Where do I start.
Ridley Jones can't stop pursuing her fake and new life, even if it gets everyone she knows killed, or herself killed for that matter.
So.... The author has basically written two novels about the exact same thing. She even goes so far to repeat large sections of the first book into the second book, verbatim. Not kidding.
She constantly switches from past tense to present tense. Who is her editor???
At one point I actually hoped Jake was finally killed off so she'd stop wondering w ...more

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Aug 05, 2019 Cecily Kyle rated it liked it

Shelves: wheel-a-thon-iv

An okay thrill ride that never really got me excited and that won't be memorable with the amount of books that I read. There are elements of the story that kept my attention but overall I just wasn't invested. I enjoy Lisa Ungers writing it just wasn't anything I haven't read before. ...more

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Dec 20, 2010 Marca rated it did not like it · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Currently listening to audio. Turns out to be a sequel to Beautiful Lies. Ridley is moaning on and on about her Uncle Max again. She talks to the reader (as she did in Beautiful Lies), and refers to the former book, "you may remember...." Ridley is an annoying character - don't really like her much, but the story is intriguing so I'll keep listening.

Still listening - OMG! Can this speaker let one thought go unspoken? Now she is telling me the reader how to think about her! I'd pull the plug, but ...more

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Jul 20, 2017 Jim rated it liked it

Shelves: 2017

The second Ridley Jones series book from author Lisa Unger, "Sliver Of Truth", pales somewhat significantly from the first outing in this series. A whopping 426 pages, (paperback), this yarn gets lost into itself several times. Long passages and chapters that do nothing to move the plot along really bog this "Thriller" down frequently. This one opens up not long after the first book had left off. ("Beautiful Lies"), Ridley seems lost now that her favorite Uncle Max is dead. Interacting with seve ...more

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Feb 05, 2017 Donna rated it liked it · review of another edition

In this 2007 book, writer Ridley Jones picks up some pictures she had taken over the last few months and she is met by a couple of FBI agents. In several of the pictures, she sees a shadowy figure who the FBI obviously feels is her Uncle Max, although "Uncle" Max is her true biological father. Only problem is that Max is dead. Ridley saw his body after a car wreck and she spread his ashes. The FBI thinks Max will come after the one person he loves.

No one is who they seem to be in this book. I've ...more

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Nov 14, 2009 L.E. Fidler rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: convoluted-plot, bad-ass-protagonist-names, unnecessary-sequel

so, apparently i can't type reviews anymore because fiona sees me do it, comes over, hits a few keys on ole blue, and bam! review gone.

sigh.

in this sequel to "beautiful lies" once more ridley suffers the slings and arrows of seriously outrageous fortune. her relationship with the sexy but moody jake is on the fritz (clearly, she did not heed keanu's warning from the film "speed" that relationships started under intense situations don't exactly scream longevity), she is still incredibly obtuse, a ...more

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Jul 25, 2016 Monica rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Excellent novel! Compact but with lots of surprising twists.

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Aug 28, 2019 Heather rated it liked it · review of another edition

This sequel was just OK. Not nearly as well plotted, or as engaging as the first book in the series.

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Oct 24, 2020 Helen rated it liked it

I struggled with this- some narrators just don’t fit with you. The story is a continuation of a previous book which I thought had ended. I’d assumed this was a different story with the same character.

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Sep 10, 2011 Emily rated it really liked it · review of another edition

eThe most striking thing about this is the very conversational style of writing. It is as if the main character and first person narrator is sitting with you in your living room and telling you all about what happened to her. This can be very engaging, but can also be a little bit jarring, particularly when her asides take you out of the story and her endless analysis of her choices in a specific moment. Foreshadowing is also a little heavy-handed as well as frequent. ("If I had known what was g ...more

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Jun 18, 2014 Lady ♥ Belleza rated it it was ok

Shelves: library-book, reviewed, fiction, mystery, series, thriller

This is the second book about Ridley Jones, it is a continuation of the Beautiful Lies and while I enjoyed it, I am pretty much done with Ridley Jones. All the way through this novel we get a rehash of the first novel, she repeats herself constantly. We learn her dislike for cell phones and why she is a terrible driver, both facts that were covered in the first novel and didn’t really need to be re-explored here. She also jumps forward in time and and then explains her actions and conversations ...more

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Dec 19, 2009 Barbara ★ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-fbi-pi-cop, x-set-in-usa-new-york, mystery-espionage, x-set-in-europe-uk-england, read-2012, author-title-char-u

Well it's no wonder I was confused. There is absolutely no indication anywhere on this book that this is a sequel to Beautiful Lies which I hadn't read. But once I started it, I was invested and since I don't have Beautiful Lies, I figured what the heck. I found it decidedly strange that the protagonist, Ridley Jones makes comments directly to the reader. For me it was informative (since I hadn't read the first book) but it was still a really weird feeling. In the beginning I liked Ridley but sh ...more

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Apr 11, 2011 Donna rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library, 2011, a-z-challenge

This is a follow-up to a previous novel that I haven't read and although you do not really need to know the previous story I did find myself wondering what had gone on before as it is referred to quite a lot.

Ridley Jones has been to pick up some photographs when she is picked up by the FBI and shown a mysterious figure in the background of her photos. The FBI believe that this person is her uncle Max (who she recently found out is actually her father) who everyone thought was dead after some dod ...more

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Sep 11, 2010 Marleen rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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Sep 25, 2013 Maggie Boyd rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013

As a sequel to Beautiful Lies this was a huge disappointment. Jake and Ridley are struggling in their relationship. Jake can't let go of the injustice of Project Rescue, whereas Ridley just wants to move on. Then new information comes to light regarding Max, Ridley's kindly uncle who is actually her biological father and suddenly everyone around Ridley begins to die once more.

Sorry but this read like a whole different book. Where book one was a taut thriller that kept me turning the pages this o ...more

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Aug 19, 2013 Chris Guertin rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Probably one of the worst books I have ever read. It turns out to be the sequel of another book but the author tells you on the first few pages it is not necessary to have read the previous book. She then spends 300 of the next 430+ pages of rewriting her previous book. This book is an absolute bore, and never picks up any steam.

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Feb 25, 2018 Sandy rated it liked it

3 stars is being generous more like 2 1/2. I felt the story took forever to tell without a lot of excitement. I didn't really care how the story was told - like when the author would say things from Ridley's point of view "now you probably think" I don't really need to point it out to me what I might be thinking. She was the most indecisive person ever. How many times can Ridley get shot, knocked unconscious, and tortured and still keep running? The first story was better, don't think it needed ...more

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Nov 01, 2018 Beth rated it really liked it · review of another edition

SLIVER OF TRUTH is Lisa Unger’s second novel. It is a continuation of her first novel, BEAUTIFUL LIES. You’ll understand and enjoy SLIVER OF TRUTH more if you read BEAUTIFUL LIES first.

This continuation begins, probably, a year or two after BEAUTIFUL LIES ends. Ridley Jones thought all her troubles were over, but they get even worse now. Not only are there more secrets and lies but one, in particular, sure is a surprise.

Who is Ridley’s "Uncle" Max? How important is he and to whom? Did he really ...more

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Nov 09, 2019 Patricia rated it did not like it

2 book Series, read 1st book, which was Ok and finally gave up on Book 2. Very confusing and not enjoying at all :-(

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Sep 12, 2015 The Cats’ Mother rated it liked it

Shelves: x-read-in-2016, action-or-suspense-thrillers, from-book-club

First book of 2016 finished! I had not heard of this author before, but I got this through my book club and was in the mood for a quick thriller. I don't normally like the read series out of order, but sometimes will just to try an author out and decide after whether to go back and fill in the gaps. In this case I wouldn't need to as there is SO much repetition of the previous book that I felt like I had actually read it. Ironically, I often complain with series that there's no recap, when it mi First book of 2016 finished! I had not heard of this author before, but I got this through my book club and was in the mood for a quick thriller. I don't normally like the read series out of order, but sometimes will just to try an author out and decide after whether to go back and fill in the gaps. In this case I wouldn't need to as there is SO much repetition of the previous book that I felt like I had actually read it. Ironically, I often complain with series that there's no recap, when it might've been a while between books - I find it a bit arrogant that the author expects you to re-read the last one to follow their plot - who has the time? - but this would've gotten very irritating if I had actually read Beautiful Lies. So Ridley Jones is a writer who discovered in Book 1 that her whole life has been a mirage, her family were involved in a complicated scheme to rescue babies from abusive families and sell them to rich adopters, that her Uncle Max, who is actually her father, was behind it all, and her boyfriend was a killer.
Here she is contemplating leaving Jake, that she met during that adventure, and discovers that she has been under surveillance by people wanting to catch Max for a whole lot of crimes. People she contacts for information start being killed, and she doesn't know if she can trust Dylan, the FBI agent who keeps intercepting her. Now of course, as soon as he is describes as having vivid eyes and tousled hair, you KNOW he will become the new love interest, which means something has to change with Jake. I liked the pace of the action and the story-telling although could've done without all the foreshadowing and chatty asides. What was annoying the way she repeatedly puts herself in danger for no good reason, and never seems to learn from her mistakes, even when she's full of regret every time she gets into trouble and has to be rescued by a man. The plot was fairly ridiculous in a Jason Bourne kind of way, but it was an enjoyable enough read and I will give this author another go in due course. ...more

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Apr 01, 2018 Dollie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller

Ridley and Jake are back. Her parents, Ben and Grace, are traveling through Europe, and she doesn’t understand how they could be enjoying themselves so thoroughly, when her world is falling apart. Three people she’s talked to have all been killed and she feels the weight of the world on her shoulders for their deaths. She and Jake now have a on and off ‘thing’ and an FBI agent, Dylan Grace, starts inconveniently showing up. Everyone wants something from her. Everyone wants her real father, Max S ...more

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“I think most people are just trying to be happy, and that most of their actions, however misguided, are in line with that goal. Most people just want to feel they belong somewhere, want to be loved, and want to feel they're important to someone. If you really examine all the wrongheaded and messed-up things they do, they can most often be traced back to that basic desire. The abusers, the addicted, the cruel and unpleasant, the manipulators --these are just people who started this quest for happiness in the basement of their lives. Someone communicated to them through word or deed that they were undeserving, so they think they have to claw their way there over the backs of others, leaving scars and creating damage. Of course, they only create more misery for themselves and others.” — 161 likes

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