The Girl Who Was Taken Quotes

“A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“My parents wanted their daughter back, and I haven't had the courage to tell them she's long gone. Haven't found a way to break it to them that that girl doesn't exist anymore.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“You go through life doing all the things everyone else wants you to do, and you'll wake up one day realizing your life's passed you by and you've got a list of stuff you've never gotten to do.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“You go through life doing all the things everyone else wants you to do, and you’ll wake up one day realizing your life’s passed”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“The future was something taken for granted. It was always there, waiting to be lived.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“The country was transfixed, not by the girl who was gone, but by the one who made it home.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“If she were a broken girl whose life was a wreck and would never be the same, their vigor for her story would simply be unacceptable. They couldn't allow themselves to be so attracted to her narrative if it ended any way but beautifully.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“Yeah, the club was dark but so's the whole country. When someone important goes missing, or the case is interesting enough, everybody has the same fetish. Whole world, really. No one admits it, but it's true.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“I’ve tried to explain it to myself a thousand different ways. Make it sound like something other than what it is. Something that might be salvageable. I mean, when you’re with someone since high school, it’s hard to admit when it’s over. It’s hard to say that the first person you ever fell in love with is also the first you ever fell out of love with.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“With no heart. You want something, you gotta commit to it and go after it. Don’t slow down, don’t stop to think. Just keep moving forward.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“Darkness had forever been part of her life. She looked for it and flirted with it. Became quaint with it and charmed it in a way foreign to most.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“You go through life doing all the things everyone else wants you to do, and you’ll wake up one day realizing your life’s passed you by and you’ve got a list of stuff you’ve never gotten”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“Livia discovered her non-jumper was approximately twenty-five years old. The body had not been vital for at least a year, and it had likely been in the water for only three days before the fishermen jigged it off the bottom. Police dredged the flats of Emerson Bay,”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“zealot.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“missing”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“body had not been vital for at least a year, and it had likely”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“You know, when I was trying to get straight my daddy used to tell me a story about how life works in the Serengeti. Do you know?” “The African Serengeti?” “That’s the one. You know how life works there?” Livia shook her head. “Each morning when the sun comes up, cresting the horizon and stretching shadows across the sand, every gazelle and every lion opens their eyes. They all understand something. Every gazelle wakes knowing that to survive the day they gotta run faster than the slowest gazelle in the herd. And every lion wakes knowing that to survive the day they gotta run faster than the fastest lion in the pack. That’s life, young lady.” Livia stared at him. “So the fastest lion gets the slowest gazelle? That’s the point?” “No.” Randy stood and headed for the showers. “The point is that no matter who you are, you gotta wake up runnin’.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“I know he wants my forgiveness, but I’ve never blamed him for what happened to me so I don’t know how to give it to him.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“You ever tell the police any of this?” “I don’t ever tell the police anything.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“The absence of closure was a tether anchored soundly to the past that caused an anachronism as time slowly chugged by—days and weeks and years—incarcerating a sliver of the soul while life continued on.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“Nope. Regret, it’s got no size. Mine can’t be bigger than yours. My daddy always said: ‘You either got it, or you don’t.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever.” —Gerald Colt, MD”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“Well,” Randy said, wiping his face. “You go at it like that and you ain’t gonna find shit. I’ll tell you that much.” “Go at it like what?”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“How old are you?” Nicole grabbed his face and looked into his eyes. “You duct-taped my mouth and threw me in a shed overnight. This can’t be any more illegal.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“Each morning when the sun comes up, cresting the horizon and stretching shadows across the sand, every gazelle and every lion opens their eyes. They all understand something. Every gazelle wakes knowing that to survive the day they gotta run faster than the slowest gazelle in the herd. And every lion wakes knowing that to survive the day they gotta run faster than the fastest lion in the pack. That’s life, young lady.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“Livia found where they’d left off, marked with a Taylor Swift ticket stub from the previous summer.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“implement”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“Whoever took those girls has access to body bags. Sort of weird that he took the time to stuff them both into vinyl after he killed them.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“not gonna get rid of it by punching a bag.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“Regret, it’s got no size.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken