"It sounded weird to hear you talk so much; normally you only said a few words at a time. I'd never imagined that you'd have a story, too. Until that moment, you were just the kidnapper. You didn't have reasons for anything. You were stupid and evil and mentally ill. That was all. When you started talking, you started changing."

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Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.76, Scholastic Inc.

Lucy Christopher

#Stupid Quotes #Talking Quotes #Evil Quotes

“First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.”
“Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.”
“I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate with memory. As my mind tries to settle on it, it flutters away, like ashes caught in a breeze, and I realize that in my life there is a then, a before, though before what I cannot say, and there is a now, and there is nothing between the two but a long, silent emptiness that has led me here, to me and him, in this house.”

Source : S. J. Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins
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