Quotes from Gregg Olsen

you know Mimi Garcia had a little brother?" he

mean, not for the same reason," Birdy

Summer weather along the Pacific is governed by a kind of strange roulette wheel, one that makes anyone with concrete plans on the all-but-certain losing end of things. Not until the moment one ventures outside to experience the world of nature is it apparent if it is sunny or rainy or a mix of both. Its unpredictability is the only sure thing.

If this is their idea of making things even, they're working with the wrong set of scales.

around the glassy waters of the protected beachfront. "What happened here," she adds, her voice soft, "is almost too much to take." "I understand," I say.

Since Shelly Knotek came into his life, Ron's world was now a black hole of money trouble, legal trouble, and family trouble. And Shelly was right there, stirring the pot, making things worse and worse.

and car. Skye's cell phone had been missing too. She wondered if there was some connection.

was Ted. He

When you have something that you carry inside and never talk about, you don't ever unleash it on a stranger. And since you've never talked about it, you don't know even how to really frame your thoughts. You fear that your words will tumble out in a way that will only make things worse. If that's even possible.

What if the worst thing you ever did was something you didn't do?

three-year-old girl in a car unattended.

The feeling I got was when you're so self-sufficient and self-important and you're walking down the street... be careful that your imaginary wings don't jostle the real angels that are the common people.

Shutting up and just blinking at them is like giving them an information Heimlich," he'd said. "Be patient, and they'll cough it up all over you." Sure enough, Dina hacked it up.

I want to like Helen Flynn, but there might not be anything there to actually like.

she's very connected to her sisters. Adversity and courage have forged a strong, impenetrable bond between them.

Lara and Les came to know something that few understood in the late sixties and seventies: no one can help a troubled person who doesn't think they need it.

the woman he alternately loved and tolerated.

Her butt was all bloody.

When Shelly announced she was pregnant in the summer of 1974, everyone took a gulp of air. Maybe this would help?

Facebook'?" he asks. "Seriously? Now we're using that piece of self-absorbed crap as an investigative tool? What's wrong with your generation?" "Nothing that we can't fix once your generation is gone.

A criminal case is an assemblage of facts and details in an order that presents a story to a jury. Some pieces of the puzzle are magnified and others are diminished. In some cases, pieces are hidden. Or, as in the case of Alan Dawson, tampered with. Meg

As we stand there, the rain rolling off umbrellas, a man pushes through the soggy crowd. He's tall with dark, wavy hair that brushes his ears. He's wearing a long, black overcoat, and his shoes are expensive and likely ruined from the swelling puddle that has suddenly surrounded us like a moat. Samuel runs to him and Angela follows, coils her arm around him.

Shelly wanted her husband home to face the music for which she was the conductor. He had no place of refuge.

He was always wondering when the other shoe would drop and Shelly would go into attack mode.