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Lies and Deceit Quotes
What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with the truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. (1.1)
Memories and the Past Quotes
Picture a summer stolen whole from some coming-of-age film set in small-town 1950s. (Prologue.1)
Manipulation Quotes
I flirt with her at first, telling her I can see why he would want to stay home when he's got her. (1.2)
Jealousy Quotes
Men like [Mark]—men who are obviously interested purely in what they think of other people, not in what other people think of them—have always made me violently insecure. (2.40)
Violence Quotes
"Her head's smashed in, but Cooper found petechial hemorrhaging and some possible ligature marks on her neck, too, so we'll have to wait for the post for cause of death." (2.70)
Women and Femininity Quotes
For one thing [Cassie] was a woman, which caused a certain amount of poorly sublimated outrage. (1.22)
Appearances Quotes
When I made the Murder squad, I had already had my new work clothes […] hanging in my wardrobe for almost a year. (1.18)
The Supernatural Quotes
"Was this the work of a satanic cult?" (3.203)