Body Double

Sometimes, the only way you can stop a man from hurting you is to shoot him—or to hide. Maybe she’d still be alive if she’d chosen the first option.

“Well, it’s funny how our biggest decisions in life are usually the least logical.

If God wanted us to behave, He shouldn’t have created temptation.

It’s not the departure of the soul that drains the appearance of life from one’s eyes; it’s simply the cessation of the blink reflex.

Memory was merely biochemistry, yet it defined each human being as an individual.

“I just wanted to see her, that’s all. I missed her. I still . . .” He paused and cleared his throat. “I still miss her.”
Now he’s going to say that he loved her.
“I loved her,” he said. “Why would I hurt her?”
As if they’d never heard a man say that before.

Where we go depends upon where we know. And where we know depends upon where we go,”

Is that love or obsession I’m looking at? she wondered.

Sometimes, you couldn’t tell the difference.

Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child’s flesh and blood.

I’ll take care of you.

Isn’t that what we all want?