Where the Blame Lies Quotes

“People always said things like, “Everything will work out,” or, “That won’t happen.” But what about when things didn’t work out? Or when the unthinkable did happen? You had to walk around with the knowledge that life could sweep the rug out from under you at any moment. It could, because it had.”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies

“uncertain”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies

“Zach’s job offered ample opportunity to confront the wicked things people did to each other, but it just as often showcased the wicked things people did to themselves.”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies

“Plus, if—no, when—she found her boy, she had to know he might look like his father. His heart and soul would be his own, but his face might be that of her tormenter. She had to make peace with that. She could never cause her child to think she saw evil in him because of the features he could not change.”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies

“how the things you believed about yourself, irrational or not, could rule your choices. Your fears. Your insecurities and the blame you assigned yourself. And, if that was far too painful, you cast it off on others.”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies

“The man had worn the ski mask he’d initially attacked her in, but she had been able to identify him by his voice, his smell, and other physical attributes, as her downstairs neighbor, Marshall Landish.”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies

“She’d looked like a warrior, being wheeled into that hospital. Half dead. Still fighting. Josie. Josie Stratton.”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies

“He’d been assigned to guard the hospital room of a girl who’d escaped being chained in an abandoned warehouse for almost a year.”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies

“His words washed over her along with his scent. It registered, memory responding. Pineapple. Coconut. Something overly sweet and tropical. She knew immediately who he was.”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies

“Josie hadn’t truly known her mother, and her mother had never truly known her. They were related by blood, but not much else. She was even sadder for her mother than for herself, she found. Sad about the way Diana Stratton had chosen to live her life. Because it did come down to choice, didn’t it? Whether or not her mother had been dealt a terrible hand by life—and Josie could agree she had—she’d continued to hold tight to bitterness, to share her pain with the people she was supposed to love. Like Josie, her child. But Josie didn’t harbor resentment about that anymore. And despite her own poor hand, she’d never turn into her mother. She’d chosen not to let bitterness rule her.  She’d never continue the cycle of pain and abuse. Never.”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies

“Because it was that time of night when alcohol and melancholy tricked you into thinking bad ideas could end well,”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies

“What was that certain something in a person that gave them the strength to overcome what others could not? He sighed. He supposed if he had that answer, he could bottle it and fix the world.”
― Mia Sheridan, Where the Blame Lies