We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1)

by Karin Slaughter

“Every kid gets a different set of parents, even if they grow up in the same house.”

“Why did you stop drinking?” “The reason most people do. I got tired of it. It stops being fun real quick, and then it’s just hangovers and feeling like shit and being terrible to people you love and doing all kinds of nasty things that you know you shouldn’t do, so you drink more to forget and start the cycle all over again.”

“You can’t put a person in one box, Emmy Lou, especially when they get older. You’ve gotta judge them by the totality of their lives. You do bad shit when you’re young that you regret. You do good shit when you’re old that you hope makes up for it. In