How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I'll tell Roy he fell off the changing table, she thought. He'll believe that. Oh God, let him believe that. (3.44)
Most of the townspeople's lies involve sex; Sandy McDougall's is one of the few that's about violence. The fact that she beats her baby is one of the uglier secrets in the book. Her corrupt little family, seething with anger and casual brutality, seems more peaceful when they're all vampires, hiding secretly under the trailer in the twilight world.
Quote #2
"…if you're doing anything illegal up there, I don't want to know about it." (3.228)
Lawrence Crockett knows that Straker and Barlow are up to something. He may not want to know what he's going to conceal with his lies, but he knows he's going to lie to conceal something.
Quote #3
"Meetcha," Jackie said, and disappeared into the dimness. (5.142)
Jackie serves drinks at Dell's place; this passage is about the first time she shows up in the novel. Before she appears though, the novel reveals (via Lawrence Crockett) that she's sleeping with Hank Peters (who has a wife). So really the only thing there is to know about Jackie is that she has a secret—a lie is all she is as far as the novel is concerned. She's only there so the reader can know that she's concealing something.