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Not One of Us
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Debbie Herbert15,535 ratings, 3.94 average rating, 799 reviews
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“My philosophy was that if someone wanted you to know anything personal, they’d tell you themselves.”
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“Nobody likes the messenger of bad news.”
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“Chapter 19 JORI I stared at the old photos, willing them to help me make sense of what had gone so horribly wrong. Some clue as to what was soon to befall us. We’d been so young, so carefree. What kind of evil had been lurking in the background of our lives? The front door banged open and shut. I started, the photos in my hand dropping onto the bed. How long had I been sitting like this, lost in old memories? Heavy footsteps stomped across the den.”
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“Where, exactly, did the bounds of family loyalty lie? What was the right thing to do for Zach, for my grandmother, and for Deacon and his parents? My”
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“did what I had to do.” Her gray eyes darkened and glowed with fierce determination. “No regrets.” “You knew I loved Deacon.” I hurled the accusation at her. “You knew how much it hurt me when people said he and his family went into hiding to save themselves from the Mafia. You knew”
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“my colored hearing, unique and idiosyncratic, formed my own private world no one else could envision, much as Zach’s world was unexplainable and unknowable to anyone but himself. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if researchers one day discovered a neural connection between synesthesia and autism. Reality might be fluid and flexible, influenced greatly by individual perception instead of set in stone.”
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“Reality might be fluid and flexible, influenced greatly by individual perception instead of set in stone.”
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“Give me peace over drama any day.”
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“But the schoolgirl in the photo had that youthful gleam and innocence in her eyes that could never be recaptured. I wished I were that girl again. To experience that unbridled optimism and happiness I hadn’t managed to achieve since then.”
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“was a common phenomenon wherein they either repeated the last word they heard or spoke words and phrases repetitively, whether or not it was situationally appropriate”
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