The missing girl–there had been unceasing news reports, always flashing to that achingly ordinary school portrait of the vanished teen, you know the one, with the rainbow-swirl background, the girl's hair too straight, her smile too self-conscious, then a quick cut to the worried parents on the front lawn, microphones surrounding them, Mom silently tearful, Dad reading a statement with quivering lip–that girl, that missing girl had just walked past Edna Skylar. Harlan Coben
Crap. I was hopin’ all things ugly had been raptured, but you’re still muckin’ up the planet.”“ We must share the same faith, honey. ’Cause beauty checked out when you showed up.
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Courtney Vail
Sometimes in the winter, when the fog rolled in and silenced the waves, it felt as if death had its fingers around my neck. Fingers like frostbitten twigs that made me ache inside.
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Tara Kelly
Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the...
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Dean Koontz
Mark had a better chance interpreting body language at Madame Tussauds.
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Kim Aleksander
If you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. You have to go through the motions of surviving in order to survive.
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Nicci French
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