The Girl You Killed Quotes

“frowned”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl You Killed

“When you’re being psychologically abused, you soon learn that you don’t matter, that your suffering has no meaning, and that there’s no escape.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl You Killed

“She’d fallen in love with the love story, with the idea of them living the dream. She’d been desperately trying to ignore the facts clearly displayed in front of her, the little signs, just to keep the dream from unraveling.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl You Killed

“But successful marriages were hard work. Walking away was hard, complicated, heart-wrenching. Staying was much harder. The life growing inside her gave her little choice.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl You Killed

“much of everything going on, rarely letting anyone new in.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl You Killed

“People didn’t care about people anymore. They lived insulated in their own bubbles, intoxicated and overwhelmed by too”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl You Killed

“She got all her exercise vicariously, like when traveling the Congo with Michael Crichton, chasing bad guys with Harlan Coben, going to battle with Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, or escaping from prison with the Count of Monte Cristo.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl You Killed

“and college years on the basketball court, where he was barely tolerated because of his height. He’d seen pro players and had envied their stature, convinced that hoops had something to do with it. Believing he could maybe override his genetics and squeeze a little more elevation from his growing bones, he spared no effort. He ended up almost three inches taller than his father, which meant his efforts had probably paid off some, but he was no Michael”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl You Killed

“enjoyed the view from the stratosphere. Maybe they were closer to the angels, like an old woman once told him. He didn’t really believe that, but either way, taller men had no issue asserting themselves faster and with less effort than shorter ones. Than him. He’d done everything he could think of to gain an inch or two while it was still possible. He’d spent all his high school and college years on the basketball court, where he was barely tolerated because of his height. He’d seen pro players and had envied their stature, convinced that hoops had something to do with it.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl You Killed