Where They Lie (Nora McTavish, #1)

by Joe Hart

People aren’t always ruled by their pasts, but they never really escape them either.

Bitter truth is that pill we can’t get ourselves to swallow.

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.

There are no words for what we do to each other. No words for what we are. Human beings are the strongest and weakest part of the world. And when they break, they shatter everything around them.