Karin Slaughter

Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.

He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.

Please don’t leave me, Paul. Please.”

“I won’t,” he promised.

But then he did.

It’s the curse of the motherless child

’s the curse of the motherless child

“The truth can rot you from the inside. It doesn’t leave room for anything else.”

Andrea had learned a very hard lesson over the last two years, and that was that saying nothing could be just as hurtful as saying everything.

Wherever you go, there you are.’”

She asked, “You know that painting, The Problem We All Live With?”
“Norman Rockwell. 1964. Oil on canvas.” Gordon knew his art. “The piece was inspired by a six-year-old named Ruby Bridges who integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans.”

past behavior predicts future behavior.