The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts Quotes

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless that, in the blackness, all one could make out were the contours of despair.”
― Laura Tillman, The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City

“Heinous crimes are like that, people said. They do not teach lessons, they only confirm the suspicions about what can happen in our world.”
― Laura Tillman, The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City