Summit Lake Quotes

“No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

“Can anyone name a president who really had the citizens in mind during the majority of his decisions in office? None of them did, and the current ones don’t either. It’s all about power, keeping power, and dishing out power to those who throw the most money at them.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

“But if no one tells you when you’re a kid to dream, then you just go through life and do the things everyone else does, sometimes the things your parents do.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

“You know they say the crime is not what brings people down.” Brad smiled. “Yeah, it’s the cover-up.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

“A cottony framework of snow-white clouds ripped and pulled their way across the sky, stretching over the lake and toward the horizon like a ceiling to the world. In the distance an opening formed, as though solvent spilled from heaven had burned a hole in the clouds, and through it shined vibrant yellow rays of morning sunlight that landed on the waterfall and ricocheted off the granite.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

“the small jet crashed in a prairie outside Omaha, Nebraska. There were no survivors.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

“Because Jack died the same day Becca did.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

“That’s how you know you’re doing what you were meant to do. When you never get bored with it, and you never want to do anything else.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

“But finding a secret is never the key. Figuring out why a secret is a secret”—he lifted his cigarette into the air—“that will lead you somewhere.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

“And if all your dreams come true
Do your memories still end up haunting you?
Is there such a thing as really breaking through
To another day and a brighter shade of blue —Christine Kane
“She Don’t Like Roses”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

“tensing and rooting for Becca to fight harder, to somehow change the outcome.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

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― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

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― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake