Down City Quotes

“I wander into dad's room. "Can i sleep with you?" I ask. On these nights i crawl into his bed. He curls his giant body around mine. Sometimes he holds my hair to his face and weeps and mutters thick-sounding nonsense in his sleep. I think i would do anything to make him stop being sad.”
― Leah Carroll, Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder

“They have no understanding of the way addiction exists, a little genetic blip in our DNA, and waits, waits, waits for an opportunity.”
― Leah Carroll, Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder

“It's as if i want all this to have happened already. I want the memory of it, but the doing it is hard for me.”
― Leah Carroll, Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder