“Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water.” — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.” — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Why do you always quote poetry at me when all I want is a straight answer?” — Mindy McGinnis Poetry Copy Share Image
“And I hug her again. Because I just can’t stop touching this girl.” — Mindy McGinnis Girl Copy Share Image
“There's a part of everyone deep down inside of them not meant for you.” — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“In a world like this, you pay it forward, 'cause more than likely you didn't deserve it when you got it the… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Type of men who gather up seven of themselves to attack two women in the middle of the night generally won't go… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“We hear you shoot like a man.” “You heard wrong,” Lynn said coldly. “I shoot like a woman.” — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Things have changed," Mother answered, her gaze drawn to the southern horizon. "So we change with them.” — Mindy McGinnis Mother Copy Share Image
“I’ve been trying to do better about killing people,” Lynn said. “Then fate puts you in my path.” — Mindy McGinnis Fate Copy Share Image
“Violence begets violence, and if I want to be a cog in that wheel, I have to accept when it stops on… — Mindy McGinnis Crime Copy Share Image
“You can't change the things you've done. It's now and the here on out you've got control of.” — Mindy McGinnis Change Copy Share Image
“Why should I care if the tides rise again if I am only a corpse riding the waves?” — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Killing people was easier when the only face I ever saw was Mother’s back then, anyone else was the enemy and shooting… — Mindy McGinnis Killing Copy Share Image
“I can call them at any time, invading their lives with a series of numbers, like spinning the combination on their locker… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Do you want to die like this?" Mother had asked, that night and every night since then. Lynn's answer never changed. "No."… — Mindy McGinnis Evening prayer Copy Share Image
“I don't tell her that we're both still sulking from the use of the word psychotic . Because if that's accurate then… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“They all had their terrors, but at least the spiders that lived in the new girl’s veins were imaginary. Grace had learned… — Mindy McGinnis Horrors Copy Share Image
“My mom has poetry in her, something I never would have guessed. It must be where my words come from, flowing through… — Mindy McGinnis Poetry Copy Share Image
“You can love someone down to their core and they can love you right back just as hard, and if you traded… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“There's different ways of doing things wrong, Lynn, and not all of it is choosing to hurt others. Sometimes it's the things… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Men got two guns, you know. One for now," he tapped the barrel of his gun against her nose. "And one for… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“So you know by feeling a little empty if you're apart more than a day or two, like half your self wandered… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Heath holds the door to the band room open for me, and I get to my chair without falling, snapping together my… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Another low moan rose from the grass. "That was a good shot," Mother said, nodding toward it. "Not good enough." Mother shrugged.… — Mindy McGinnis Good enough Copy Share Image
“Grief is by nature the most violent of them all. The ancients tore their hair and rent their clothing to express it.… — Mindy McGinnis Grief Copy Share Image
“I stopped you because it's easier to fantasize about violence than actually perform it," she says a few minutes later. "Most people… — Mindy McGinnis Life Copy Share Image
“Lynn pulled her own rifle into her lap, the cold metal bringing more comfort to her than Mother’s touch ever could. Her… — Mindy McGinnis Long ago Copy Share Image
“But our logic is skewed in this respect. A dog that bites is a dead dog. First day at the shelter and… — Mindy McGinnis Animal Copy Share Image
“What happens next is you’re more likely to be a victim of sexual assault,” he says, and I feel Alex tense beside… — Mindy McGinnis Sexual assault Copy Share Image
“My arrival saved the kingdom, while his only reiterated that his blood would fill the throne one day.” — Mindy McGinnis Destiny Copy Share Image
“I’m telling you, Claire. It doesn’t matter. What you were wearing. What you look like. Nothing. Watch the nature channel. Predators go… — Mindy McGinnis Hunting Copy Share Image
“You see it in all animals—the female of the species is more deadly than the male.” — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Why couldn’t I want something easy?” “Because that’s not like you. You’ve always been fond of the difficult.” “True enough. I like… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Just know that there's bad men in the world, and dying fast by your mother is a better way than theirs.” — Mindy McGinnis Better way Copy Share Image
