This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

Only the liar knows he's lying

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.