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“In our neighborhood, the problem wasn’t the person who made the mistake; it was the person who acknowledged the truth.”
― Jess Lourey, The Quarry Girls

“That’s the thing about small-town boys. All they had to do was come up with that one shtick, a crack at just the right time, or a Hail Mary touchdown, or nail the part of Romeo in the class play, and they were set. They never had to try again. Here’s the thing about small-town girls: we let them get away with it. But not now. I didn’t have time for it.”
― Jess Lourey, Unspeakable Things

“Boys don’t know how to be uncomfortable in their bodies, I realized, even the ones who don’t look great. It’s not that they can’t be shy, or sad, or scared, just like girls. It’s that they haven’t been taught their bodies are bad their whole lives, like we are.”
― Jess Lourey, Litani

“You’re saying this is how my mom is telling me she loves me?” He shrugged. “Might be all she has to offer.”
― Jess Lourey, Litani

“It was that she was wrong. We do need people, every one of us. In fact, it’s impossible to do the hard stuff alone. I was sorrier than anything that my mom didn’t know that.”
― Jess Lourey, Litani

“Paulie Aandeg’s been found. After twenty-four years, the boy in the sailor suit has come home.”
― Jess Lourey, Bloodline

“I loved my mother because I didn’t know I had a choice. I had to love her.”
― Gregg Olsen, If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

“Less of the worst was better than more.”
― Gregg Olsen, If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

“Investigators, however, understood that 10 percent of a nightmare is still a nightmare.”
― Gregg Olsen, If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

“Victims of abuse can still love the monster. This ambivalent loyalty might just be the predator’s ultimate form of damage.”
― Gregg Olsen, If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood