Close to Home (Tracy Crosswhite, #5)

by Robert Dugoni

If I ever go missing I want my picture on a beer bottle instead of a milk carton. That way, my friends will know I’m missing.

Seems like a brilliant idea lol

As much as she wanted a son or a daughter, she couldn’t imagine the grief and the agony of losing a child. Her sister’s kidnapping and disappearance had devastated her, but it was nothing compared to the havoc it had wreaked on her parents.

there are users, there will be suppliers, Del. An addict is an addict.

Hope became something to cling to when there was nothing else but despair.

Color is a fact of life, Del. The people who say they don’t see color, or race, are the people who do. We see good-looking people and funny people, obnoxious people. Why shouldn’t we see something so obvious as color?”

“In time, though, you learn how to live with the pain. You learn how to live with all the memories, and you learn not to fear them. You learn to embrace them, to welcome them.”

“It isn’t going to be better, Maggie. It’s going to be different, and different is okay. You just have to learn how to embrace it. Like anything, it takes time. What you have to realize is that crying is God’s way of helping us wash away the pain. So don’t you ever apologize for crying; it’s a reminder to us all that we’re human, and that we love our family with our entire being. And that’s a beautiful thing.”

“If you go in thinking you’re going to lose, you’ve already lost. If you go in thinking you’re going to win, you’ll be disappointed if you lose. So just go in to the competition with the attitude that you’re going to compete, which is all you can control anyway.”