The Sound of Rain Quotes

“I was free. Free also means nothing.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“No one speaks the truth to anyone anymore. Lies either by omission or purposefully have become our national pastime. Backstabbing is an Olympic sport. Or at least it should be.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“The women laugh a little. I do too. Though I’m only mimicking their laughter. Nothing is funny to me.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“I’m going to get back to that place where crumble is a topping and not a way of life. “You’ve”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“I thought that being with someone who seemed to love me was better than being alone.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“Nothing makes a person feel worse than knowing you’ve inspired pity. It’s a knife in the chest. A scalpel across the neck.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“Doing the right thing feels like shit.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“My relationship with my own father has put me into the category of women who acquiesce to win approval.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“He’s a narcissist, and I wonder what it says about me that I’m willing to sleep with a man whose eyes constantly look past me in search of his own reflection.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“my sister and I want to laugh out loud. She stands in her kitchen pouring a really good chardonnay. Her wrists, like her ankles, are perfect. Her fingers slender and adorned with the Tiff—the rock on a platinum”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“thought”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“Shame has a way of cutting one off from everyone one knows. Especially those who might forgive.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“The blanket the nun gave me smells like someone tried to Febreze it into submission.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“I look at the bottle. I feel so diminished just then that I don’t even have the confidence to reach over and pour myself another, let alone smack my sister over the head with it.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“The sound of the rushing water and striking of the continual sequence of the little copper is pleasing in its constant rhythm.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“comes,”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“brittle. “I”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“I’m sitting on a barstool in her kitchen while she hovers over me. “Right,” I tell Stacy. “One night. That’s all.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“A criminal case is an assemblage of facts and details in an order that presents a story to a jury. Some pieces of the puzzle are magnified and others are diminished. In some cases, pieces are hidden. Or, as in the case of Alan Dawson, tampered with. Meg”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“As we stand there, the rain rolling off umbrellas, a man pushes through the soggy crowd. He’s tall with dark, wavy hair that brushes his ears. He’s wearing a long, black overcoat, and his shoes are expensive and likely ruined from the swelling puddle that has suddenly surrounded us like a moat. Samuel runs to him and Angela follows, coils her arm around him.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“three-year-old girl in a car unattended.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain

“cell finally finds service outside of Fruitland and I pull the BMW over to make some calls. First”
― Gregg Olsen, The Sound of Rain