Mindy McGinnis

“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

“And I hug her again. Because I just can’t stop touching this girl.”

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“All imperfections glare in the spotlight.”

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“Heath holds the door to the band room open for me, and I get to my chair without falling, snapping together my…

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“You can love someone down to their core and they can love you right back just as hard, and if you traded…

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“But our logic is skewed in this respect. A dog that bites is a dead dog. First day at the shelter and…

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“Kiddo, you and me don't do so well in situations we can't control.' 'Don't think I care for that.”

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“...just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's not the truth...”

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“You see it in all animals—the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

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“Things have changed," Mother answered, her gaze drawn to the southern horizon. "So we change with them.”

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“There's a part of everyone deep down inside of them not meant for you.”

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“Thank you,' Mom says, dropping one of my bags to the floor with a huff. There's a fine sheen of sweat on…

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“I’d lost everything I had. I didn’t have the heart to take from someone else.” “Plus I would’ve sniped your ass.”

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“Type of men who gather up seven of themselves to attack two women in the middle of the night generally won't go…

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“All the stupid people I know are happy.”

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“Killing people was easier when the only face I ever saw was Mother’s back then, anyone else was the enemy and shooting…

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“My mom has poetry in her, something I never would have guessed. It must be where my words come from, flowing through…

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“Why do you always quote poetry at me when all I want is a straight answer?”

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“I’ve been trying to do better about killing people,” Lynn said. “Then fate puts you in my path.”

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“There's a famous line from a poem about the ocean," Mother had finally said to end the discussion. "'Water water every where,…

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“my dad likes to say that you can shit in one hand and wish in the other and see which one gets…

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“A good person does not necessarily make a good king.”

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“I stopped you because it's easier to fantasize about violence than actually perform it," she says a few minutes later. "Most people…

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“There's different ways of doing things wrong, Lynn, and not all of it is choosing to hurt others. Sometimes it's the things…

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“Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.”

— Mindy McGinnis