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.”

“We both know how he treated you,” Hannah said. “It’s easy to look from the outside and say that you should walk away. But when you’re in it yourself, when you see how much your child needs a father, when you tell yourself the man you fell in love with is still in there somewhere . .

Virgil had joked about how raising girls could kill a man, but he had no idea how fucking hard it was to grow yourself into a woman.

Sometimes, things just fucking suck, and you have to accept it, and there’s no shame in being relieved when the bad part is over.”