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They didn't do things the way you would have. They're not you. That's what their declaration-of-independence rants were all about,when you used to fight, and why they kept telling us they want to do it their way.....Well, now, I get to do it my way......Well, now, I get to do it my way...And you know what? It's fun!...I can do anything I damn well please. It's called freedom. And I earned every minute of it. And that's the best feeling in t..
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He's an odd duck but he's a good kid, with a good heart.
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I'm a professional worrier. It comes with the ovaries.
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reading was the cornerstone of self-esteem, success, and even a simple pleasure that was lifelong. She
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I'm always interested in products that claim to be aphrodisiacs, when we all know that the one and only aphrodisiac is a man volunteering to build you some bookshelves.
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We may not be perfect, but we're good, and good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will. We don't know the first thing about the kind of evil that would sacrifice a child.
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How can litigation not be adversarial? That's the fun part.
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To me, it doesn't really matter how a baby comes into the world, only that it does. I just feel lucky in who my baby is. Best of luck with yours.
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Cynthia's face popped onto the screen, a gorgeous, blue-eyed blonde with a dazzling smile. Mindy thought of the baby and how pretty he or she would have been.
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Now, Megan, we can't pick on whoever abstained.
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looked back at Bennie in panic as Declan tugged him away. By the time they'd rounded the corner,
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her law firm needed the dough. The slump in the economy had hit lawyers, too, and people had stopped suing each other. Could world peace be far behind?
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Normal was the simple wish of everyone with a mental illness. Normal was what everyone else, the worried well, took for granted.
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in the chalices, wafers, and rosaries of her childhood, and she
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you.
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petition." "Will they get caught?" "No, the record doesn't reflect what time papers are filed. The docket shows only that they were filed the same day. But that they're fifteen minutes apart? It doesn't show that." "Is what they did against the law?" Marshall frowned. "No, but it's improper." Bennie knew the Code of Judicial Conduct because it was similar to the Code of Professional Responsibility for lawyers. "The Judicial Code says that j..
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She was too exhausted to live.
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Judy was raised without a religion, which is why she has so much faith.
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He turned away, walked to the kitchen, and stopped at the threshold. The bloodstain was still there, and even if he replaced the floorboards, he would always know it had been there. He had seen her standing at that spot a thousand times, rinsing a glass, getting water for a recipe, or filling a vase of roses from their garden. Chloe had died in her own kitchen, and Mike realized all of a sudden that he could never live in this house again. ..
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Mary was always surprised at how terse men could be. She needed fifteen minutes to say hello. Plus hugging time.
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The Marcellus Shale is one of the largest deposits of natural gas in the country, and it's one of the major fracking sites. In fact, the most fracking sites in the entire country are in Pennsylvania, on the Marcellus in Susquehanna County and a bunch of others. Towns like Dimock, Montrose, Springville, Headley. As you know, the gas companies use explosives to drill and they have the FELs.
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Simon Baron-Cohen, The Science of Evil; Judith Beck, Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Louis Cozolino, The Making of a Therapist; Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths; James Fallon, The Psychopath Inside; Peter and Ginger Ross Breggin, Talking Back to Prozac; Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience; Kent Kiehl, The Psychopath Whisperer; Jane McGregor and Tim McGregor, The Sociopath at the Breakfast Table; J. Reid Meloy, The Psychopathic Mind; Dinah..
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Ha! She has a dark side, my sister. Nobody believes it, but she used to torture me when I was little.
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You think you're in Connecticut, but you're in the jungle.
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Cluster C liked everything to stay the same, forever.
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Kids with anxiety issues were in psychic pain, and nobody knew that better than he did. Anybody could be pushed over the edge, given the right circumstances.
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Words are our weapons.
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We're here and we prey on you.
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You know what Kovich always says, 'Leave or heave.'" She" --
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Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.
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About $300 or $400 a month per child, depending on a couple of factors, like they get more if the child has special needs." Abby shrugged. "But the way I look at it, even if their motive is money, that doesn't mean they won't do a good job."
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She set down the glass, palmed the
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History taught that the cover-up was always worse than the crime.
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Custom curtains made with a lovely Schumacher fabric that she'd used for the headboard.
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Lawyers can't lie, officially. Only Congress.
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The human body was a thing of beauty because so many structures protected the heart, but she realized that the human heart simply could not be protected, not by muscle, not by bone, not by anything.
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I don't care what anyone thinks. I only care about the law. I only care about the constitution.
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Justice didn't compensate for the loss of human life. Justice was an intellectual concept, inevitably trumped by emotion. Justice was the word we used when we couldn't have what we really wanted, which was everything back the way it was. Justice was only a consolation prize. She
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We never lose the people we love.
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I don't want to be less than, so some guy can feel more than.
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sure her attorneys would argue that you were negligent in your supervision of Sam and--" "Stop." Eric held up a"
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She'd stopped checking Facebook when the posts about Evan started appearing in her feed, mostly horrible and vile. She was ditching Facebook and going back to real books. Mindy
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No, I'm standing here as a placeholder...It means I'm holding your place, until you are ready to stand for yourself. You don't need me to save you. I can help you save yourself, and you can save yourself. I'm not going to let them kill you. I'm not going to let you kill yourself. I'm going to show you an alternative. That's my job, to get you over the times when you believe there aren't any alternatives, to help you though the time you don'..
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