The Road Leads Back Quotes

“Kara Martinson squeezed her way toward the crowded bar, nudging between two kids she couldn’t quite believe were old enough to be legally drinking in public. They should have been funneling cheap beer in a college dorm somewhere. Or sneaking shots from Daddy’s liquor cabinet. Art gallery openings used to be much more sophisticated than this. When”
― Marci Bolden, The Road Leads Back

“she was stuck with the memory of his face red with anger as he told her she had never been anything but a disappointment.”
― Marci Bolden, The Road Leads Back

“Harry grabbed Kara’s elbow and pulled her toward the ice cream shop instead. She scowled, but he didn’t give in. “Just pretend it’s made from organic, all-natural, nonchemically enhanced, free-range chicken milk.”
― Marci Bolden, The Road Leads Back

“Sometimes I wonder if they ever worried about what happened to me.” She looked at her hands as she toyed with a ring on her finger. She blinked several times, but she couldn’t hide the tears in her eyes that always seemed to come with speaking of her parents. “I wonder if they ever feared that I’d ended up dead in some back-alley abortion clinic somewhere, my body dumped in the woods to hide the evidence.” Harry closed his eyes and rubbed his fingertips into his forehead. “Jesus, Kara. The way your mind works sometimes.”
― Marci Bolden, The Road Leads Back