The Orphanage by the Lake

by Daniel G. Miller

a ticking clock focuses the mind.

My goddaughter is missing,

There’s no time like the present.”

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 funniest thing about listening to music while you’re walking is it somehow makes everything you’re doing seem much more important. Like you’re the star of your own action movie.

The easiest way to spook somebody about to give you information is to show them how badly you need it.

you can learn something from nothing.”

You know you’re getting older when you injure yourself in your sleep.

I take a sip of water from my nightstand and talk to myself for a second to warm up my morning voice, which currently sounds like Miley Cyrus.

Omfg ded lmao

If there is one thing in this world I hate, it is being disrespected.

But you know how sometimes it’s the little things that stick with you?

It’s incredible. I’ve known this man for about two minutes, yet I feel like I’m talking to an old friend and we’re the only two people on earth.

The person who’s taking these girls might be right in front of you, and you wouldn’t even notice.”

“You can hope for the good times, but it’s the bad times that make you.”

I envy wealthy people like Andrew. Life comes so effortlessly to them, they spend about ninety percent of their time enjoying it while the rest of us grind away.

you can’t trust anyone.

Sometimes your only choice is to trust and hope.

I don’t picture Madeline murdering and then disposing of a dead body herself. She can barely sit on a dirty chair in my kitchen.

Lmao

When it rains, it pours.

It’s what we can’t see that scares us.

a relationship built on a lie is destined to crumble,

‘To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.’

Nothing kills motivation like happiness.