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“I am brave, and I am brilliant, and I am strong..”
― Then She Was Gone
― Then She Was Gone
“Other mothers lose children without losing their husbands, too.” “You didn’t lose me, Laurel. I’m still yours. I’ll always be yours.” “Well, that’s not strictly true, is it?” He sighs again. “Where it counts,” he says. “As the father of your children, as a friend, as someone who shared a journey with you and as someone who loves you and cares about you. I don’t need to be married to you to be all those things. Those things are deeper than marriage. Those things are forever.”
― Then She Was Gone
― Then She Was Gone
“He leaves the room pulling the door closed quietly behind him, a gesture so incredibly unlike Zack,
"who usually engages inanimate objects forcefully and noisily”
― The Night She Disappeared
"who usually engages inanimate objects forcefully and noisily”
― The Night She Disappeared
“Jojo’s got what you might call an elastic relationship with the truth.” “Elastic?” she repeats. “Yeah. She, er… how can I put it? When she doesn’t like the reality of things, she finds a reality she prefers.”
― None of This Is True
― None of This Is True
“And she felt it then, like a needle in her heart, the love her mother always talked about. ‘You won’t understand how much I love you until you’re a mother yourself.”
― Then She Was Gone
― Then She Was Gone
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