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“True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood icons.”

Megan Abbott

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“She said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone.”

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“Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness.”

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If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

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I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.

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I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless.

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“Where’d that world go, that world when you’re a kid, and now I can’t remember noticing anything, not the smell of the leaves or the sharp curl of dried maple on your ankles, walking? I live in cars now, and my own bedroom, the windows sealed shut, my mouth to my phone, hand slick around its neon jelly case, face…

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“This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a son and a roof with three shingles and a pretty birdpath made of stone that I sometimes see Mrs.Shaw, her tied back with a scarf, cleaning with a dainty skimmer. How does this man, a man…

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“I think she might cry. In her way, she is.”

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“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,”

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