Carrie Vottero

“He had a pathological need to cheer her up. To make her laugh. It was not the opposite of fear but its demented companion. It was marriage.”
― Eric Puchner, Dream State

“Find me a mother whose heart is not carved into the likeness of her children.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

“As I walked away he called to me and when I turned back he said, "They're never far from us, you know."
"Who?" I asked.
"The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“As soon as you started to admire something, to love it, you spelled its doom.”
― Eric Puchner, Dream State