Ellie knew how easy it was for someone with money to smother someone w — John Marrs

"They say you can’t miss what you’ve never had, but that’s not true."

"She’d been happier with him than she had ever thought imaginable, but only now she understood it wasn’t because their DNA had dictated it, but because she’d opened herself up to the concept of love."

"Enough bullets had hit Ellie over the years to know when a writer was about to take aim."

"Don’t worry. The only skeletons in my closet belong to the mice."

"One day I was thinking about a conversation I’d had with my sister Maggie about why she married her husband, John. She was adamant it was love at first sight, and even though they were only fourteen when they met, they knew they’d end up spending the rest of their lives together. I’m a scientist, so naturally I’m skeptical about that kind of thing, but it did get me thinking—what if she was right? What if love at first sight actually exists?"

"Since being part of a couple he’d learned relationships didn’t need truth to make them work, they just needed one of them to possess a heart large enough to beat for both of them."