The Death of Us Quotes

“Nope,” a man said, in a voice shaped by a grin.”
― Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us: A Gripping Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal That Will Tear a Small Town Family Apart

“She seemed to fold into herself at the shoulders, a paper doll wishing for her clothes.”
― Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us: A Gripping Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal That Will Tear a Small Town Family Apart

“he worships you.” “Really?” And didn’t it sting a little? She had put her whole heart into being Callan’s mother, far more effort than Link had put into being his dad. Link could do no wrong, even as he did. Link simply was a parent. She had been forced to turn herself into one, to swallow her self-doubt that she was the right kind.”
― Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us: A Gripping Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal That Will Tear a Small Town Family Apart

“he worships you.” “Really?” And didn’t it sting a little? She had put her whole heart into being Callan’s mother, far more effort than Link had put into being his dad. Link could do no wrong, even as he did. Link simply was a parent.”
― Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us: A Gripping Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal That Will Tear a Small Town Family Apart

“His late-night internet sleuthing had told him limestone itself was bones. Bones of little sea creatures who’d lived and died over epoch time in what had once been a huge inland sea. They lived atop a bone pile, all of them. Which was not the sort of thing he had wanted to know.”
― Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us: A Gripping Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal That Will Tear a Small Town Family Apart

“The stone from quarries like the Kehoes’ had been carved into skyscrapers in New York and monuments in Washington, DC—places most people around here would never see. It had been used to build temples to the glory of commerce these folks didn’t enjoy, for centers of learning they wouldn’t attend, and for places of worship where they would never kneel. Stone from the next county had been crafted into state houses and courthouses across the country, and even sent to fix up the Pentagon after 9/11. The ground beneath them had been chiseled out and carted away for the far-off business of other places. Close to home, you didn’t see the pretty white stone from their hills turned into monuments to beauty or progress. It was the rubble lining your garden path or maybe, at the end of your days, a slab might mark the resting place of your bones.”
― Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us: A Gripping Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal That Will Tear a Small Town Family Apart

“All men’s faults fall on the women who raised them.”
― Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us: A Gripping Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal That Will Tear a Small Town Family Apart

“He used to fit in her arms, and now his life folded out like a map to places she could not go.”
― Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us: A Gripping Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal That Will Tear a Small Town Family Apart

“Link could be another child in the house, ramping Callan up until she couldn’t get either of them to listen or settle down. But if he was Peter Pan, he was also the Pied Piper, even if he didn’t know it. Even if he wouldn’t take the role seriously.”
― Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us: A Gripping Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal That Will Tear a Small Town Family Apart

“Boys will be boys, some would say. But she didn’t think so. Boys were often more.”
― Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us: A Gripping Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal That Will Tear a Small Town Family Apart

“What kind of mother am I?” “A really devoted one,” Vera said. But it was a real question. A million decisions each day, all left to her. She had to get it right, every single thing right.”
― Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us: A Gripping Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal That Will Tear a Small Town Family Apart