Book

The Girl Next Door

Name: The Girl Next Door
ISBN: 1503950565

A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel reveals the depravity of which we are all capable.This novel contains graphic content and is recommended for regular rea

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Characters

Jack Ketchum (1)Amy Jo Cousins (1)

“You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.”

— Amy Jo Cousins, amazon.com

Tagged: Disappointment, Optimist, Pessimist

“I lay in bed and thought about how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn't have to be physical. All you had to do was take a good hard kick at something they cared about.”

— Jack Ketchum, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Suffering