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Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
Some people, those with money and the ear of power, never pay for their crimes the way ordinary people do.
“It becomes different. More distant, I guess. The pain changes. It dulls. It’s always there, but it doesn’t always rip your heart out, you know?”
Mourning is sometimes a dull ache that won’t leave, and other times it’s like pricking your finger on a needle hidden in a shopping bag.
And then Scott almost came to a stop. A thought hit him like a ten-pound hammer. He came here for Ruth. He wants to kill her.
it wasn’t just the axe that weighed her down. She was about to attack a man. A real person. She would be ending his life in a bloody, horrific murder.
In the absence of a psychological disorder or crisis or the impairment of rational thinking brought about by drugs or alcohol, it is very hard to kill another living, breathing member of the human race.
Amanda was coming around to the view that what was legal and what was right were often two different things.
“No, little lady,” said Donnelly. “When the paramedics took away the vic, he still had a pulse. This guy ain’t dead. If he makes it, he can just tell us what happened.”
Emotional touchstones in life create powerful memories that can live large again with a smell, a word, or a feeling.
There are two common responses: either they don’t want anyone to ever hurt like they do, or they want everyone to hurt like they do.”
