Eileen Patterson

“Reggie had always been a quiet kid, even with her own family, and part of the reason for this was that she never knew the right thing to say. Words didn’t come easily to her, they were stumbling blocks rather than lines of connection. And only later, after the fact, when she was replaying conversations in her head late at night, did the right words come—a cruel joke, too little, too late.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“I will never understand a desire for a reckoning so strong that you burn down your own house to get it,”
― Jana Deleon, Later Gator

“sometimes there was no moving on and you just had to move through.”
― Lucinda Berry, Missing Parts

“When we hurt people just to punish them, Luanne used to say, we create a darkness that will live on long after our reasons for giving birth to it have faded.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music