Quotes from Susan Mallery

But there isn't healing, is there," she said. "I'm not going to get better. This isn't going away. There's no escape. I can't outrun it. I can never be normal.

RATIONAL THOUGHT AND a working knowledge of hand-to-hand combat were useless when faced with the villainous power of the American house spider.

I didn't know about foster kids aging out of the system. There should be a better plan than simply tossing a foster child out when they turn eighteen, even if they're not done with high school.

We're all scared. Some of us are just better at faking it.

Swedish-ish Meatballs 1 can of condensed cream of mushroom soup 2 cups of beef broth 1 envelope onion soup mix 2 14-oz bags of frozen meatballs

But being the injured party is an easy trap. If you spend too much time feeling sorry for yourself, you never act.

Thanks. But I have to do

Never cheated once. I wasn't tempted. I always figured if I was interested in someone enough to want to sleep with her, then there were problems with my current relationship. So I either fixed those or ended things.

Giraffe gestation is about thirteen to fifteen months.

Some cities in Europe are using every available bit of space to create native gardens meant to feed bees, roadsides and medians, on top of bus stops." She sighed. "I wish we'd do something like that here. We have plenty of unused corners of land to help bees.

What she really wanted to ask was "What possessed you to choose this ridiculous little town when you could have lived in New York or Los Angeles" but felt that might sound slightly judgmental

He felt like the Grinch after stealing all the presents. The Whos down in Whoville really didn't need the trappings of Christmas to celebrate the season. They were happy anyway, and so was she.

She was very aware of the fact that her first act on the road to healing had been to devastate someone she loved. The shit road of being a drunk never went away.

You're letting the fear win and that makes you small.

If I have any more caffeine today, I'm going to be jumpier than a grasshopper on lawn-mowing day.

pound mutt that doesn't belong in a hospital." "Oh." Mrs. Riley's eyes filled with tears. "We had a dog. A small Yorkie. She died a few months ago. I know Kalinda misses her terribly. I remember reading something about hospitals using therapy dogs. Do you think that would help?" She was a mother who loved her

I swear on my mother's beating heart." "That's a serious swear.

Whatever the outcome, she would have done the right thing, which meant she would be able to sleep that night. Some days that was as good as it was going to get.

Maybe this would be a good time to look in another direction and hum the Jeopardy

healing, like life, was a journey, not a destination, then she would keep moving forward. And one day, she would realize the hole in her heart had filled in just enough to be survivable.

Maybe this would be a good time to look in another direction and hum the Jeopardy! theme until the need passes.

From failure, success.

was easy to give someone else advice, but much harder to know what to do yourself.

To belong. To have family, to feel safe and loved and be the most important person in someone's life.