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Ann and Natalie died because Adora payed attention to them. Amma could only view it as a raw deal. Amma, who had allowed my mother to sicken her for so long.

Amma controlled Adora by letting Adora sicken her. In return she demanded uncontested love and loyalty.

No other little girls allowed.

For the same reasons she murdered Lilly Burke. Because, Amma suspected, I liked her better.

You can come up with four thousand other guesses, of course, about why Amma did it. In the end, the fact remains: Amma enjoyed hurting.

"I like violence," she'd shrieked at me.

I blame my mother. A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

Amma and I were sick just like Marian.

They held Ann down, while Amma strangled her with a clothesline.

She spirited Natalie through the woods, the friends held her down while Amma strangled her. She pulled the teeth herself.

Amma killed Lily all by herself, hit her on the back of the head with a stone, then strangled her with her bare hands, plucked six of her teeth, and cut her hair.

Lily Burke's chocolate coloured hair...Amma braided into a rug for my room in her dollhouse.

Thirteen years old, I thought to myself, but I felt a spear of admiration for the girl. When I'd been sad, I hurt myself.

Things cannot be reversed We learn from the times that we are cursed Things cannot be reversed Learn from the ones we fear the worst And learn from the ones we hate the most

Sharp Objects - (2018) 

- "As your mother I never loved you."

“Safer to be feared than loved,” I said.

“Machiavelli.”

“How do you know that?”

“I know tons of things I shouldn’t know.”