“Lord help her, she didn’t care whereByrne took her. Let hellfire consume her and the devil steal her soul. Because any hell with Byrne in itwas better than a heaven without him.”
“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
“Care for her. He was unworthy of such a gift. Unworthy of her blind trust and her sparkling, slightly crooked smiles, let alone her heart. But he wanted her, selfish fool he was and had always been. Care for her? Ah, God, she consumed him.”
“And then she told me she didn’t want someone who needed her in order to be a better guy. She wanted someone who was better by himself, with or without her.”
“Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.”
“He'd told her that the phrase deal with the Devil came from him; Ellie felt like she was on the verge of selling her soul.”