Force of Nature by Jane Harper
(New York: Flatiron Books, 2018), 334
- The progressive phones in the prologue (1-3)
- "The men leaned past the food, reaching instead for the bag containing their surrendered mobile phones. Reunited."
- "The men sat silent. If this were a boardroom crisis, they'd know what to do...Out here, the bushland seemed to blur the answers. They cradled their lifeless phones like broken toys in their laps."
- "The searchers were running; the men, phones abandoned on the minibus seats, painting several paces behind them."
- "It's the panic that gets you. Makes it hard to trust what you're seeing." (31)
- "Lauren sometimes felt she hadn't slept a full night through in the sixteen years since the day her daughter was born." (52)
- "The bush seemed like the kind of place that kept secrets well." (64)
- "You could say what you wanted about Alice, but the woman always knew exactly what she was doing." (121)"
- "My children both got to be teachers." (129)
- "For him, and an easy favor done a long time ago for the wrong people and the slipper chute he'd found behind that trapdoor." (133)
- "At the end of her interview, Alice had looked at the panel each in turn and said she could do the job, but only would for a 4 percent increase in the offered starting salary." (133)
- "Falk always found it interesting what people deemed valuable." (138)
- "It wasn't any one thing that went wrong; it was a hundred little things. It all kept adding up until it was too late." (142)
- "I keep thinking that having rusty skills might be worse than having no skills." (143)
- Long quote about how financial crimes lead to violent crimes (160-161)
- casual abortion (166)
- losing a parent (225)
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Created: 2025-01-06-Mon
Updated: 2025-07-18-Fri