We Own the Night Quotes

“I miss talking to her. I miss how she knew what to say and when to say it. I miss the way she knew my heart better than I did. I just miss her—wholly and without measure. And my heart has been breaking these last months as I watch her shrink and shrink and shrink until sometimes she looks like a stranger inside my grandmother’s skin.”
― Ashley Poston, We Own the Night

“I’m not too big for the town. I’m too small. It’s swallowing me up. I’m stuck in at the bottom of the well, not because I don't have the resources to climb out, but because my ankles are weighted with what I’ll leave behind, and the water’s rising.”
― Ashley Poston, We Own the Night