Where They Lie (Nora McTavish, #1)

by Joe Hart

How many brilliant people had fallen under the weight of unattainable desires? When you didn’t have opportunity, hope could become chains.

We’re told a life without pain is ideal. To avoid suffering as much as possible. But pain is where you grow. We cry with our first breaths because it hurts to expel amniotic fluid and take in air. No transition occurs without pain.

We’re all to blame.

Repetition of this reveals books commentary on justice system wokers? It foreshadows her eventual job switch into a more involved and directly impacting job.

It isn’t fair we lose the ones we love twice.

Sometimes trauma is a knife, sometimes it’s stitches.

Human beings are the strongest and weakest part of the world. And when they break, they shatter everything around them.