Carrie Vottero

“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

“Mothers like her will light the last night on earth.”
― Amity Gaige, Heartwood

“Dogs and books, two excellent defenses against solitude and despair.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“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