Someone We Know Quotes

“Routines give structure to empty days.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“We all wear masks. We all have something to hide at one point or another.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“Yes. I trusted Amanda," Pierce says, leaning back again in his chair. "And yet you cheated on her with your neighbour," Moen breaks in. He fixes a hard look on her. He finds her annoying, picking away at him. "That was a moment of stupidity. Becky came on to me. I shouldn't have done it. Just because I did something wrong, it doesn't mean my wife did." "Doesn't it?" Moen asks, arching an eyebrow. He doesn't like her. He doesn't like either one of them. He considers getting up and leaving. He knows he's within his rights to do so - he's here voluntarily. Moen continues to goad him. "You haven't asked who was having an affair with your wife." "Maybe because I don't want to know," Robert says bluntly. "Or maybe it's because you know already?" Webb suggests. Robert gives the detective a hostile look. "Why would you say that?" "We think she was sleeping with your neighbour, Larry Harris." He is suddenly furious, but tries to tamp down his anger. "I didn't know." "Sure, you didn't," Webb says pleasantly. "That's not why you slept with Becky Harris, is it, to get back at your wife's lover? You wouldn't do that, would you? Just like you wouldn't kill your wife.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“was”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“Now that she’s here, Olivia is engulfed with sadness. That life comes down to this. This loneliness, this waiting – for suppertime, for a visitor, for death.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“Sometimes she wishes she could make her husband understand all the things she does, all the things she’s done for their family. He doesn’t appreciate her enough. He never will. He’s oblivious.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“Як можна в наш час чогось навчити дітей, коли вони бачать навколо стільки негідної поведінки — постійно в новинах, з боку людей при владі? Здається, ніхто більше не поводиться пристойно й не має жодної поваги до чужих кордонів.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“Коли кидаєшся стрімголов у фантазію, порушуєш шлюбні клятви й спиш з іншим чоловіком, то ніколи, ніколи не думаєш, що твої відбитки опиняться у справі про вбивство.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“Олівію поглинає сум. Від того, що життя врешті-решт зводиться до цього. Цієї самотності, цього чекання — на вечерю, на гостя, на смерть.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“A mother will do almost anything to protect her son.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“When she was growing up, kids didn't see therapists. But it's a different time.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“They used to sit around the wading pool, chatting and laughing, serene in the expectations that their kids would be bright and beautiful and untroubled. Parents always seem to have overly optimistic visions of their kids’ talents and futures when they’re toddlers, Olivia thinks—maybe that’s how they manage to keep going.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“Olivia is always affected by the weather, her mood attuned to its changes. Sunny days make her cheerful. Dark, damp, dreary days like this one always get her down.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“so he turned if off again and tossed it back in the drawer and soon left.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“It didn’t use to be this way.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“the possibility of a civil suit. This is America, and people”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“The trees are bright gold and orange and red and everything looks like it did when he was little and his parents raked leaves into a big pile on the lawn for him to jump in.”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know

“How, she fumes, are you supposed to teach a kid right and wrong when so many people in positions of authority regularly behave so badly? What the hell is wrong with America these days?”
― Shari Lapena, Someone We Know