The Child Finder Quotes

“Fear never keeps anyone safe”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“No matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“No one ever told you what to do when love went away. It was always about capturing love, and keeping love. Not about watching it walk out the door to die alone rather than in your arms.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“(She) didn't believe in resilience. She believed in imagination.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“She said we are all part of a secret club. Someday, she said, we will take over the earth. It will be people like us that save the world, she said: those who have walked the side of sorrow and seen the dawn.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Everyone needs faith: faith that even though the world is full of evil, a suitor will come and kiss us awake; faith that the girl will escape the tower, the big bad wolf will die, and even those poisoned by malevolence can be reborn, as innocent as purity itself.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. Like a leaf that drank from the morning dew, you didn’t question the morning sunrise or the sweet taste on your mouth. You just drank.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Hope springs eternal. Just remember: so does evil. Sometimes they are impossible to tell apart.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true piece is when you curl around one little piece of something. One little fern. One little frond. One person to love.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Snow girl was glad she had left her own feelings behind.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“She knelt over the grave, until her nose was touching the dirt. “When you are ready to inhabit a new skin,” she said, “we will be waiting for you.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Shame was a peculiar beast, Naomi knew. She suspected everyone had it: the dragon they wanted to slay. But for her it was different. Naomi wanted to bathe in it, to stand under its waterfall and come out blessed.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“It will be people like us that save the world, she said: those who have walked the side of sorrow and seen the dawn.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“This is something I know: no matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Stop thinking that you have to know everything to understand it.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Everyone was harmless until you knew better.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“The moon, B had noticed, awakened the dawn, and so the two – like pale cousins – never saw each other. Even on the most hopeful of days the moon could only peep, from a distant sky, at the sun.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Be careful the purpose doesn't destroy you.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Each child she found was a molecule, a part of herself still remaining in the scary world she had left behind.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Are the stories we tell ourselves true or based on what we dream them to be?”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“I'm afraid," she confessed, her voice quiet.
"Of what?"
"That if the box is opened I might want and want and never be filled." She took a breath. "That you will get tired of filling it." She paused and spoke her deepest fear, turning to his ear. "That you will use me and throw me away.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true peace is when you curl around one little piece of something. One little fern. One little frond. One person to love.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“She stopped by an empty field, the soil abandoned, gone to mustard weed and grass. Lush bundles of crimson clover lined the fence. At the far end was a cluster of trees. As always, her eyes sought movement at the edge of the woods.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Outside a pale dawn threaded the sky with silver.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Regrets?” Diane asked cheerfully. She made a gusty little sandwich out of crackers and cheese.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Every day I don’t kill the woman, I admire her more.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“But her favorite state was right here, home in prickly Oregon, where every turn of the road seemed to bring her to an entirely different vista.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Her entire life she had been running from terrifying shadows she could no longer see - and in escape she ran straight into life.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“His mild efforts at curiosity had been rebuffed--not with coldness but with her single-minded focus on her cases. And yet he could sense something deeply vulnerable about her. It was that part of her that spoke to his soul. He wasn't a ledge talker for nothing.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder