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When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words.
We kind of wanted the going-out, shopping, prom-going type, and we got this weird, creepy one, and we love it but what is it talking about, ever? Sometimes Stevie felt bad for her parents. Their idea of what constituted interesting was so limited. They were never going to have as much fun as she did.
Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.
This is about real people, not figures from fiction. I know this crime is popular—that crime itself is popular. But crime has a human face. If you’re going to study crime, you have to remember the people involved.”
Stevie had no fears of the dead. The living, however, sometimes gave her the creeps.
Sherlock said, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
“Of course I worry too much,” Nate said. “But I’m usually right. The people who worry are always right. That’s how that works.”
The moon was thin like a hook, and the owls were calling. The smell of fall leaves blew on the wind and Hayes was dead.
As soon as you start talking to someone else, the story you have in your head changes. Human memory is rewritten like computer memory. You just get the most updated file.
That was something they taught you in anxiety therapy—the thoughts may come, but you don’t have to chase them all.
You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they’re supposed to be.”
Stevie swallowed hard. The dry ice was in the workshop. Janelle’s pass was taken. Janelle’s pass opened the workshop.
“Fifteen years on homicide.” “Why did you stop?” Stevie asked. “Because I opened too many doors and saw too many terrible things,” he said quietly.
“I just think you get me,” she said. “I do,” he said, shrugging. “We have a limited emotional vocabulary. We’re indoor kids.”
“I’m going to bed,” she said, getting up. “Good night, Westley. They’ll most likely kill me in the morning.”
10/30/38 Where do you look for someone who’s never really there? Always on a staircase but never on a stair
Stevie said stuff like that all the time and was told she was wrong. David said it once and he got a nod and a compliment. Oh, the magic of dudes. If only they bottled it.
If you’re asking if he’s capable of arranging a kidnapping, I don’t think Leonard Holmes Nair is capable of arranging breakfast.
