Murder Road Quotes

“Stories don’t always end the way they’re supposed to. They don’t always end at all.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“The thought bubbled through my mind, unbidden: I don’t want to do this anymore. I want more. Surviving to tomorrow wasn’t good enough. Not anymore.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“Reader, I married him. Because it should be me or no one.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“Because when you tell a lie, you should stick to the truth as closely as possible.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“When I met Eddie Carter, I saw someone who was so different from me, yet whose darkness mirrored my own.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“You can’t run from your demons forever—sometimes you have to walk into them head-on.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“After that dinner with his parents, Eddie said he was going to the bathroom. I followed him down the hall past the kitchen, where he passed the bathroom door and walked out the back door of the house.
“What are you doing here?” he asked in surprise when I joined him on the back patio, damp with melting March snow, the air frigid. I didn’t answer, and for a long moment I listened to him take deep breaths, one after the other. I had known that he wasn’t going to the bathroom; I had known that he was going to escape for a few minutes to breathe. I had known it, and his parents hadn’t. Eddie was lonely, even here, with these good people who loved him. His experience overseas, where he’d changed from a sweet young man into something else, was locked inside him; he couldn’t let it out, and he couldn’t get rid of it. No one in his life understood him anymore.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“His shoulders relaxed. This was how it worked: I eased him down, and in return I got to watch some of the pain leave his body and his face. He’d never met a girl who was willing to put the work in. Well, he’d met her now.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“And on that long-ago summer night, my mother had taught me that in order to survive, you sometimes have to cut and run. Leave people behind. Just go.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“If there was one thing my mother had taught me, one hard lesson that had stood out among all of the others, it was that the police were never to be trusted—with anything.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“All I wanted was to survive. I certainly never dreamed of finding a husband or children, of settling down in a house somewhere. I wanted to be left alone, expected it.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“A bullet hit it,” Rose said. “Hit Diana right in the middle of the forehead. It was upsetting. I’d have been happier if the bullet had hit Charles. I don’t care if anything happens to him. I don’t like the idea of anything”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“I'd studied him in depth; he was my favorite topic.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“in order to survive, you sometimes have to cut and run. Leave people behind. Just go.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“People think pretty girls get the best of everything, but in my opinion they get the worst of it.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“You have nice hair and a nice face, that body. People aren’t going to like you. You should get ready to deal with that”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“I was high school yearbook kind of pretty, not the kind of beautiful that made men crazy.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“For anyone who was told they’re weird because they read too much. Because you’re not, and you don’t.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“The things we’ve seen mean the world is crazy. Not us.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“For anyone who was told they’re weird because they read too much. Because you’re not, and you don’t. CHAPTER ONE That July night seemed full of possibility, with the empty highway stretching out before us.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road