A Girl Called Murder Quotes

“I threw my head back and laughed at the sky.
A harsh, twisted sound.
A crow's caw.”
― Kennedy Cannon, A Girl Called Murder

“The air was thick with the fears of everyone around me: smoke, dark apples, salt water, black pepper, thunderstorms, vinegar, blood, blood, blood, blood . . .”
― Kennedy Cannon, A Girl Called Murder

“She collected kisses like lost pennies. She tucked them away in her pockets for safe keeping.”
― Kennedy Cannon, A Girl Called Murder

“I grasped the threads of his fears until my knuckles turned white and my skin split open. The weight of them was heavy, heavy, heavy in my hands.”
― Kennedy Cannon, A Girl Called Murder

“Everyone's fears were different. My mother's had tasted like chardonnay and warm sugar; my father's tasted like too many nights without sleep—like black coffee and Prozac and chewing on the end of a pen until ink stained your teeth.
This boy's fear was the prickling of a thousand tiny feet over my skin.”
― Kennedy Cannon, A Girl Called Murder

“At the time of her death, my hair was long enough to donate eleven inches and have it just brush my shoulders. I'd shown up to her funeral feeling weightless and heavy all at the same time. Dressed in black and pale purple, like a fresh bruise.”
― Kennedy Cannon, A Girl Called Murder

“There were five of us then: Tannyn. Jack. West. Theodore. Evelyn.
Five of us, before Eve––goddamn Eve, with her sunshine hair and poisonous smile––had turned up dead in the branches of an oak tree on her family's property. Heart carved from her chest. Crows perched on her mangled body.”
― Kennedy Cannon, A Girl Called Murder