The Trapped Girl Quotes

“If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“you never learn anything when you’re talking.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“Tracy a basket containing a wrapped loaf of her homemade bread, a glass container of salt, and a bottle of wine. “The bread is so that you may never know hunger,” she said. “The salt is so that your marriage will always have flavor. The wine is so you will always have something to celebrate.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“Interrupting a man when he’s discussing his profession is like telling him what he has to say isn’t important. Besides, you never learn anything when you’re talking.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“You control what you can control. You give the rest to God.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“The bread is so that you may never know hunger,” she said. “The salt is so that your marriage will always have flavor. The wine is so you will always have something to celebrate.” Faz raised his glass. His eyes watered. “May you have many years together, and may the Lord bless you with happiness and prosperity. Salute!” They raised their glasses”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“You control what you can control. You give the rest to God.” By”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“You said we were family,” Faz said. “This is what family does. We do dumbass shit, but we do it together.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“Nightingale,”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“longues”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“gallows humor was”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“WHO LOOKS OUTSIDE, DREAMS; WHO LOOKS INSIDE, AWAKES. CARL JUNG”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“conditioning?” Del said. “What do you want to bet the library’s a madhouse too?” Faz said.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“explicit.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“the brass and the bean counters look at the bottom line.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“Vera reached behind her and handed Tracy a basket containing a wrapped loaf of her homemade bread, a glass container of salt, and a bottle of wine. “The bread is so that you may never know hunger,” she said. “The salt is so that your marriage will always have flavor. The wine is so you will always have something to celebrate.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“choke, and pulled the rip cord. The engine cranked, sputtered, and died. He made sure the gear was in neutral and the”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“No.” “What”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“hers, then pretended to take a”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“I was cooped up on a Wednesday night, reading The Nightingale, a book that had transported me back to 1940s Paris, when Nazis goose-stepped down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. I heard someone at the door.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“Most Americans were familiar with their Miranda rights; they’d heard the words recited so often on the plethora of police and detective shows populating television, they could recite their Miranda rights from memory. What most didn’t know was their right to an attorney was guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment, but only during a criminal interrogation, and only if the person was taken into police custody—the right was intended to prevent coercion and intimidation. Even fewer knew the Sixth Amendment embodied a second constitutional right to counsel when a prosecutor commenced a criminal prosecution by filing a complaint, or the suspect was indicted by a grand jury. The fallacy most Americans harbored was that they could simply shout, “I want a lawyer!” when confronted by a police officer, and the officer couldn’t talk to them. Not so. In fact, in the absence of a criminal charge, and so long as they didn’t take Strickland into custody, Tracy and Kins could talk to him until the cows came home. For now, however, Tracy was content to humor Montgomery.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“This was also his MO. Excuses for his behavior so he wouldn’t have to accept what he’d done.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“I have a lot more patience now than I did when I was twenty-five, and patience is a big part of being a parent.” “I”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“building, all tinted glass and natural lighting, was nothing like the cement tomb where”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“afternoon.” As Tracy and Kins walked toward the waiting boat, Kins said, “You got”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl

“their fifteen minutes of fame. Alan Townsend? Maybe. During their interview, Orr had told Tracy she felt guilty about what had happened to Andrea while under her roof. Could helping Andrea to start a new life have been Orr’s way to cleanse herself of her own perceived sins? What did Tracy really know about Penny Orr? Nothing. She went back to her cubicle, hit the space bar on the keyboard, and brought her monitor to life. She logged on to the Internet, pulled up the website they used to conduct LexisNexis searches, and input information to run Penny Orr through the system. The search provided a history of the person’s past employers, former addresses, relatives, and prior criminal history. The history for Penny Orr was short. She’d moved twice, from the San Bernardino home address to a townhome, to the apartment complex. She’d had one sister, deceased. She had no prior criminal history. She’d had one employer. Tracy’s stomach fluttered. Penny Orr had spent thirty years working for the San Bernardino County Assessor. Sensing something, Tracy opened another Internet page and searched for the Assessor’s website. Pulling it up, she clicked her way through the pages until she came to a page announcing that, effective January 3, 2011, the offices of the County Assessor, County Recorder, and County Clerk had been consolidated. To the left of that announcement was a light-blue drop-down menu for the departments’ various services, including a link to obtain certified copies of a birth certificate. CHAPTER 31 T”
― Robert Dugoni, The Trapped Girl