Where the Truth Lies Quotes

“– in the kind of town where coyotes chew on stray cigarette butts and packs of boys go howling at the moon.”
― Anna Bailey, Tall Bones

“How do you do this?" she'd asked a man at the bar, who'd told her he was leaving his wife. "How do you decide which parts of your life you want to keep and which parts you want to leave behind forever?”
― Anna Bailey, Where the Truth Lies

“There are still people out there to whom we are not merely the sum of the bad things that have happened to us.”
― Anna Bailey, Where the Truth Lies

“Night is made for unspeakable longings. Night is made for not speaking at all, but for furtive glances under streetlamps on dusty back roads, for the scent of a lover's hair, for fingers brushing past fingers in the darkness.”
― Anna Bailey, Where the Truth Lies

“I won’t let anything happen to you,” he says, as if he doesn’t consider himself an event.”
― Anna Bailey, Where the Truth Lies

“drunk when she got home, but”
― Anna Bailey, Tall Bones

“Abigail Blake turns at the edge of the trees and smiles at Emma. This will be the memory of Abigail that stays with Emma long after the rest has been drunk away:”
― Anna Bailey, Tall Bones