Kaley Shook

“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

“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

“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

“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