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

by Karin Slaughter

lawyer who

six feet two inches,

She had told herself in her darkest moments that she was staying with Jonah for Cole’s sake, but what lessons was she teaching her son about women? That they could be badass strong bitches in their jobs, but the second they got home, they rolled over for whatever bullshit their husbands spewed?

Valerie Lydelle

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Emmy was too closed off. She never talked about things. She didn’t express herself. She was too independent, too go-it-alone, too self-isolating, and Dylan was too tired of waiting for her to change.

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

“A man has to prove himself once. A woman has to prove herself every day.”

“He’s a priest in a time when priests have lost the benefit of the doubt,”

“She loves chemistry. It’s her favorite class.”

“Elijah teases her about studying so hard. Boys don’t like smart girls.”

What if she waited until Cole was out of high school?

Gabriel,

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“Statistically, men who rape don’t only rape one time, and generally, they don’t only have one victim.”

it. If you’re looking for people to blame, we are all guilty here.”

Valerie

🙌🏻

“When people die, your relationship with them doesn’t end. You find new ways to connect with them.”

“Denial gets a bad rap, but it can be very helpful on a temporary basis. The problem starts when you stay in denial, because trauma doesn’t go away. It stores itself in the body, particularly with children. The more they try to force it down, the more ways the body finds to push it back out.”