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great opening lines:beautiful lies by lisa unger

There were times when she wished he were dead.  Not that she’d never met him, or that he’d never been born, but that he’d get hit by a car or get himself killed in some other violent way like a bar fight, or his arm would get caught in a machine and he would bleed to death before anyone could save him.  And she wished that in those final moments, when he felt his life draining from him, that he’d understand what a bastard he was, what a waste of life.  She could envision him, his blood pooling in a black kidney-shaped puddle beneath him as he repented in terror, understanding with a final clarity that he was about to pay for the man he was.  In those dark moments he’d be sorry, so sorry.  But it would be too late.  That’s how she felt about him.

—-Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger