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Deadly Little Scandals
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“We all play by rules our brothers will never even have to know.”
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― Deadly Little Scandals
“So, to recap," Lily said, sounding calm, but not entirely apathetic, "Campbell isn't your half sister. She's mine, because my daddy's mistress, who had Campbell's daddy's baby way back when, is actually my biological mother, and that baby was me. Victoria is my great-aunt, and technically, so is Lillian, because my adoptive mama is actually Lillian's identical twin sister's daughter. The real Liv Taft was killed twenty-five years ago in what might — or might not — have been an accident, involving practically every adult I know." Lily paused. "Does that about sum things up?”
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― Deadly Little Scandals
“You're here because you know what it's like to feel powerless. Everyone you see here has been given every privilege that money can buy, but at the end of the day, there are some privileges that money can't buy. Money doesn't keep people from telling girls who look like me to go back to the other side of the border. And no matter what your family name is, or how white your skin, I'm willing to bet that there are still people who tell you to smile, because you look so pretty when you smile." She paused, just for an instant. "we all play by rules our brothers will never even have to know.
"You want to know why we go cliff-diving and off-roading and drag you out to abandoned islands in the night?" Victoria's voice was no louder, but her delivery was suddenly crystal clear. "Because we can. Because when people say that well-behaved women rarely make history, they leave out the little tidbit that the women who do make history rarely do so alone.”
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"You want to know why we go cliff-diving and off-roading and drag you out to abandoned islands in the night?" Victoria's voice was no louder, but her delivery was suddenly crystal clear. "Because we can. Because when people say that well-behaved women rarely make history, they leave out the little tidbit that the women who do make history rarely do so alone.”
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“What kind of person would I be if I prided myself on being different from other girls?”
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― Deadly Little Scandals
“Are you sure that's how we ended up at the bottom of this hole, Sawyer?"
"Trust me. You were unconscious, but I held on just long enough to see the person responsible."
"Maybe it was an accident?"
"How do you accidentally drug someone, Sadie-Grace?"
"Accidentally . . . on purpose?”
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"Trust me. You were unconscious, but I held on just long enough to see the person responsible."
"Maybe it was an accident?"
"How do you accidentally drug someone, Sadie-Grace?"
"Accidentally . . . on purpose?”
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“Having second thoughts, Taft?"
"Sawyer doesn't have second thoughts!" Sadie-Grace insisted from the golf cart behind us, loyal to the bone. "Sometimes, she doesn't even have first thoughts!"
Thank you, Sadie-Grace.”
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"Sawyer doesn't have second thoughts!" Sadie-Grace insisted from the golf cart behind us, loyal to the bone. "Sometimes, she doesn't even have first thoughts!"
Thank you, Sadie-Grace.”
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“A split second later, Sadie-Grace literally bowled me over with a hug.
"I love college," she told me, scrambling to her feet and helping me up before resuming her aggressive hug campaign. "I'm majoring in dance and also Russian literature, and combined, Boone and I have only broken two bones!"
"Both Boone's," Campbell clarified.
"His bones are my bones," Sadie-Grace insisted. "And vice versa. Unless that's creepy? I've discovered I have a really hard time telling what's creepy, but on the bright side, I haven't been kidnapped or kidnapped anyone else this semester, so that's good.”
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"I love college," she told me, scrambling to her feet and helping me up before resuming her aggressive hug campaign. "I'm majoring in dance and also Russian literature, and combined, Boone and I have only broken two bones!"
"Both Boone's," Campbell clarified.
"His bones are my bones," Sadie-Grace insisted. "And vice versa. Unless that's creepy? I've discovered I have a really hard time telling what's creepy, but on the bright side, I haven't been kidnapped or kidnapped anyone else this semester, so that's good.”
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“I was done knowing better, when I didn't really know anything at all.”
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“My grandmother gave an elegant little shrug. "People will think what they want. I daresay they always do.”
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― Deadly Little Scandals
“This is me crouching. This is me standing. This is me realizing how deep this hole is."
"Do you have to narrate everything you're doing?"
"This is me trying to give myself a boost . . . Oof!"
"Sadie-Grace."
"I'm sorry! It's just really hard to give yourself a boost.”
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"Do you have to narrate everything you're doing?"
"This is me trying to give myself a boost . . . Oof!"
"Sadie-Grace."
"I'm sorry! It's just really hard to give yourself a boost.”
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“Putting pants on a dog was not what one would call "easy". Putting pants on a purebred, hundred-pound Bernese mountain dog who was fairly certain she did not want to wear pants could have substituted for one of the twelve labors of Hercules.”
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― Deadly Little Scandals
“Earth to Sawyer?" Campbell said. I had no idea what I'd missed.
"We were just about to discuss how incredibly debonair I look in this hat," Boone informed me, sliding his fingers along its brim. "I was born to fedora."
I wasn't sure whether the pained look on Nick's face was the result of Boone's use of the word fedora as a verb or the conversation he, Campbell, and I had been having before we'd been interrupted.”
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"We were just about to discuss how incredibly debonair I look in this hat," Boone informed me, sliding his fingers along its brim. "I was born to fedora."
I wasn't sure whether the pained look on Nick's face was the result of Boone's use of the word fedora as a verb or the conversation he, Campbell, and I had been having before we'd been interrupted.”
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“Sawyer? I think I can feel my shoulder."
"Can you feel your hands?"
"No."
"What about your legs?"
"No."
"Can you move?"
"Let me check . . . Also no."
"Then what good could it possibly do us that you now have feeling in your shoulder?"
"I don't know, Sawyer. But I think I hear someone coming, and you're the one in charge of coming up with plans.”
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"Can you feel your hands?"
"No."
"What about your legs?"
"No."
"Can you move?"
"Let me check . . . Also no."
"Then what good could it possibly do us that you now have feeling in your shoulder?"
"I don't know, Sawyer. But I think I hear someone coming, and you're the one in charge of coming up with plans.”
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“Well . . ." Lily prompted primly. "Ask me again."
"Ask you what?" I played dumb. She'd shushed me. This was the price of shushing.”
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"Ask you what?" I played dumb. She'd shushed me. This was the price of shushing.”
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“People who'd always had a family to count on and place to belong couldn't truly understand the draw of that little whisper that said There's someone like you.
Someone who wouldn't hold my origins against me.”
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Someone who wouldn't hold my origins against me.”
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“Walker is going to college — in Scotland." Sadie-Grace said Scotland like Walker might as well have been attending university on Mars. "Boone keeps asking him to mail home haggis and a kilt, but either that's illegal or Walker just really doesn't want to.”
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― Deadly Little Scandals
“I love Fourth of July. It's my favorite, isn't it, Mim? This was going to be the year I won the golf cart parade and the pie-eating contest up at the lake. William Faulkner, too"
"William Faulkner was going to win a pie-eating contest?" I asked.
Still channeling Lillian, John David gave me a look. "Don't be ridiculous, Sawyer. There is no canine pie-eating contest. William Faulkner is going to win the costume contest, which is part of the parade."
"I mean, sure," I said, nodding. "Who doesn't celebrate American independence with some kind of dog costume contest?"
"And parade." John David could not have emphasized those words more.”
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"William Faulkner was going to win a pie-eating contest?" I asked.
Still channeling Lillian, John David gave me a look. "Don't be ridiculous, Sawyer. There is no canine pie-eating contest. William Faulkner is going to win the costume contest, which is part of the parade."
"I mean, sure," I said, nodding. "Who doesn't celebrate American independence with some kind of dog costume contest?"
"And parade." John David could not have emphasized those words more.”
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“Sawyer? I just wiggled my feet! And my hands! And my temple!"
"Your temple? As in your head?"
"No. As in my lady temple."
"Your lady . . ."
"Temple. Like how it says in the Bible that your body is a temple?"
"Oh, God. Can be just go back to the part where you were talking about your hands and feet?”
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"Your temple? As in your head?"
"No. As in my lady temple."
"Your lady . . ."
"Temple. Like how it says in the Bible that your body is a temple?"
"Oh, God. Can be just go back to the part where you were talking about your hands and feet?”
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“So . . ." Campbell took up position next to me. "What's the plan?"
She'd kept her voice low, but I still cast a glance at Lily, who was focusing on driving the boat, and Sadie-Grace, who was "helping Lily focus," before I supplied a response. "The plan," I murmured, "is to talk to Victoria again."
I'd caught Campbell up on the conversation I'd had with Victoria Gutierrez at The Big Bang. Cam was as invested in finding Ana's baby—her half sibling—as I was. And that meant that she was just as interested in what Victoria had to say.
"I didn't actually expect you to answer my question," Campbell murmured beside me. "It was more of a courtesy question, really. You were supposed to ask what my plan was."
Having seen one of Campbell's schemes up close and personal, I was almost afraid to ask. "What's your plan?"
"Talk to Victoria." She smiled. her teeth a flash of white in the dark. "No offense, but I'm better at talking than you are."
"Me too!" Sadie-Grace appeared between us. "I'm so good at talking that sometimes, once I start, I can't even stop!"
Neither Campbell nor I had a reply for that.”
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She'd kept her voice low, but I still cast a glance at Lily, who was focusing on driving the boat, and Sadie-Grace, who was "helping Lily focus," before I supplied a response. "The plan," I murmured, "is to talk to Victoria again."
I'd caught Campbell up on the conversation I'd had with Victoria Gutierrez at The Big Bang. Cam was as invested in finding Ana's baby—her half sibling—as I was. And that meant that she was just as interested in what Victoria had to say.
"I didn't actually expect you to answer my question," Campbell murmured beside me. "It was more of a courtesy question, really. You were supposed to ask what my plan was."
Having seen one of Campbell's schemes up close and personal, I was almost afraid to ask. "What's your plan?"
"Talk to Victoria." She smiled. her teeth a flash of white in the dark. "No offense, but I'm better at talking than you are."
"Me too!" Sadie-Grace appeared between us. "I'm so good at talking that sometimes, once I start, I can't even stop!"
Neither Campbell nor I had a reply for that.”
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“I paddled over to Walker's Jet Ski. The lanyard with the key was still attached to the life vest he'd left on the handlebars. I unclipped the lanyard, attached it to my own vest, and threw his to him.
"Is it me," Walker asked Lily, "or is your delightful cousin stealing my ride?"
"I'm not stealing it," I corrected. "I'm taking it home. Nor our lake house - yours.”
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"Is it me," Walker asked Lily, "or is your delightful cousin stealing my ride?"
"I'm not stealing it," I corrected. "I'm taking it home. Nor our lake house - yours.”
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“I’m so good at talking that sometimes, once I start, I can’t even stop!”
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― Deadly Little Scandals
“Because we can. Because when people say that well-behaved women rarely make history, they leave out the little tidbit that the women who do make history rarely do so alone.”
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― Deadly Little Scandals
