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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Maybe if you lay completely still, whoever is out there will go away.
Before Sophie could even scream, this person grabbed her, then zipped up her sleeping bag until it covered her face completely.
I stayed under the pier for a few more minutes, thinking about Chad and our life together, then cursed him for ruining everything, before once
again ending up blaming myself because I hadn't taken proper care of what I had. It was the same circle of thoughts that would rush through me every night and even during the daytime.
wondering why it was so important for them to have this talk if it wasn't that big of a deal.
Matt bit his lip. I remembered he used to do that as a child too when dealing with something difficult.
Being back with them felt more like home than D.C. ever did for fifteen years.
Or if it meant she'd have to work all night like her mother, getting beaten up by strangers because she didn't do her job well enough.
"His ex-wife is Michaela Strong," I said. "And there's
more. He was there. At the camp on the day Sophie disappeared."
"Has that boy been in that box for two whole months?" I said. "He must have fed him then."
"The boy. He's…he's my son."
