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Thomas doesn’t even have the decency to call me with an update. I said enough is enough and called the police.”
HMmm sus
It’s just that when you used to be better, everything about you feels worse.
Me w anorexia
It stays with you, hiding behind every door you open, every corner you turn, even haunting your dreams. It’s happened to me before. It’s
TH bidt hokds intt thise experienxes and it expresses ikt in odd wwys...it keeps the score
It’s funny, I talked to Sonia Barreto for five minutes, but in that brief conversation, she reinforced me, made me remember the confident Hazel I used to be.
PEkple ikn mg life xurrentkg w me.thisbillness does nkt detract frim my worth
One of the first rules of being a private investigator is don’t trust your client. Half of what they tell you is a lie, and the other half is half-true.
The ultimate New Yorker pet peeve is the tourist who goes from full stride to full stop in the middle of foot traffic. We need special prisons for these people.
Ughhhthbe owostthe incobveniece
I was surrounded by so many Korean people that the first time I met a white man with a prominent bridge on his nose, I asked him, “Why is your nose like that?” I still remember the look on my dad’s face: half-amused, half-mortified.
The cuktire shock!
life?” Something dark crosses his features. “I…suppose you could say that. I wanted what was best for her.”
Ewww hees eems pedophikic
There’s something sadistic about him, taking such pleasure in the lack of joy.
YEs he seems so suspect
Saint Agnes houses them, feeds them, protects them, builds them back up. Now, how do you think they would feel if they had cameras pointed at them all the time? What would that say to them? That we don’t trust them? That we’re watching them? No, no, this won’t do. This is a church.”
But allthe mlre rwson to have cameras...fo addiiitonaa safety precsutions and feelijngs of safery foo rr girr
He’s hiding something.
Duhhh
truculence
“We found that the girl almost certainly left on her own accord. Her backpack and toiletries
Her roommate said she was in bed at lights-out and didn’t hear her leave in the night.”
SO mia planned her escape?
“Yeah, there’s been runaways, but that’s not uncommon when you’re dealing with kids from broken homes. In fact, it’s a big part of the reason my boss doesn’t want to put any more resources toward this investigation. In the past, half of the runaways eventually come
That she watched every procedural cop show, from CSI to Law & Order, only made it worse. She never let us play with our friends in the neighborhood unless she or another adult was present.
A helicoptee parent
He didn’t know any better. But you know how sometimes it’s the little things that stick with you? Well, that one stuck with me.
I understand...people used tocsll me chubby growin upad that was the precjoice to my anorexia
People think that we’re defined by the big moments in our lives: births, deaths, successes, and failures. But I think the little moments matter more because those are the moments that shape your self-perception and who you want to become. I change the subject to get my mind off it.
The person who’s taking these girls might be right in front of you, and you wouldn’t even notice.”
The headmaster i reckon
I think it’s some type of underground theater of some sort. But I think Mia might have been interested in it, and I know for sure another girl who went missing from Saint Agnes was.”
Could he have followed me? Is this a setup?
Is someonr following her
“Stop investigating the Dionysus Theater. You understand?”
What is si discreet abojt tjis theater?!?!
“It means I don’t really have a job. I’m still figuring out exactly what my calling is. I thought it might be cooking, but given tonight’s performance, that’s not looking good.”
Yessss feeling stick and truing yo find yoitself after university...like do i wabt to utilize my degree did i choode what i truly wabt to do
“You have zero patience. The other thing I found out is that if Mia dies, then Madeline gets her share of the trust.”
Hmmmm did madeoine have a hand in mias disappearance on account if acquiring her share of the tryst?:!: motive!
why would she hire you and the other investigators she’s hired?”
Exactky!!
Could Madeline Hemsley be a killer? I still can’t wrap my mind around it.
Fear is like a cancer—it starts with an actual moment but then multiplies and gains hold of you until it’s bending your experience of everything around you.
Yssss fear metastisizes fir sure
If Mia dies, the institution inherits her portion of the trust?”
Hmmmthen magbe thr orhnage has an mo to kill mia bc hee trust wouldgo to them...
The girl with the brightest smile you ever saw and a voice like honey, standing in front of me.
SHe found mja?!?
Andrew kidnapped Mia.
HEr bf?! Oh ny goodness. DId he attract her to detrqct dear hhfact tat he jidnapped mia
The walls are cinder block. It must have been a storage room at one time. Now it’s a cell.
IS dhe being sex ttafficked
She’s been manipulating everyone from the beginning.
Oh mygooess the deceit...sonia her best friend was anaccomplice to the kidnapling w andrew. The manipul
