Quotes from Susan McBride

The only thing that separated the so-called real world from high school was a locker combination

me for a minute and play devil's advocate." She leaned forearms on the table.

Jenny Dielman out of the way for good and had been waiting for an opportunity to grab her?

Then you shouldn't have a thing to worry about," Mattie told her, still refusing to let go of the case Harvey had

If drugs could heal what was broken inside her, she'd be an addict. Who wouldn't? Sometimes life hurt, and you just had to suck it up. It

wrong about Jenny always wearing it. She could have taken it off, packed it away, or buried it in the backyard.

antisocial personality disorder. No empathy, a misplaced sense of entitlement, lots of anger issues, and a liar. But her IQ was sky-high." "Anything

Grone, please," Art said into the whistling microphone.

wailed when she'd

In the past few years, the floodgates had opened. Folks had sold their homes in Richardson, Plano, Arlington, Fort Worth, and Dallas, packing up and moving to Plainfield until the population grew at the pace of rabbits on Viagra. The green was slowly swallowed up by concrete, the trees replaced by walls and roofs, glass and steel.

or two. When women went missing, or

and those of us who've been burned keep sticking our fingers in the fire, over and over again." Over and over and over. Jo

Wives bleeding and bruised often denied abuse when police appeared to check out a domestic disturbance. They feared even worse if they put their spouses in jail. It happened every day. "Jenny's

stood on the welcome mat, wearing his old bomber jacket, his boyish features grimly set. Blue