Girl Gone Missing Quotes

“He'd pulled her into his arms and kissed her. Softly on the lips. Then softly on her forehead. 'You'll be my main snag? Okay?' he'd said.
'Okay,' she'd replied into his jean jacket.
And he left, neither f them saying goodbye or waving. Cash locked the door and crawled back into bed. Caught unaware, she felt the huge emptiness of all the people who had ever left her. It was the first time in years that she remembered feeling like crying. Instead she went back to sleep.”
― Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing

“As a kid in foster homes, she had a nightly dilemma. Night wasn't always the safest time. Should she sleep with the lights off so she was harder to find in the dark? Or should she sleep with the lights on so she could see who was coming to get her? Some families forced her to shut the lights off to save electricity. Before she got older and learned better, that would send her into a tailspin of wondering, late into the night, where and how electricity was saved. You can't see electricity. Except for lightning. So just where and how was it saved? She imagined giant metal storage bins somewhere in the country filled with shooting lightning bolts.”
― Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing

“Cash didn’t know what was true or not, but there was a big difference between your family knowing you ran off with someone and your family not knowing where you were at all.”
― Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing

“But this is the country I know. This Valley. This river. This flat land that goes on forever. The dang wind chill every winter. The wind blowing across this prairie we bend over and walk into. We get used to it. It becomes us. You know, when they sing, 'amber waves of grain,' that tugs at my heart. Still. Those are our wheat fields ...

-Sheriff Wheaton”
― Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing

“Happens more than we want to know. There are Indian kids, just like your brother, heck just like me, all over this Valley. Fostered out, adopted out, working their fingers to the bone--heck, many of them not being properly fed so they are nothing but muscle and bone to begin with, thinking that if they just do good enough, maybe, just maybe, someday they will actually belong.

Mostly what I see is once they've been used up--in some cases broken beyond repair--they're thrown away like all the battered farm equipment you see sitting in the back of farmyards, back by the windbreak."

- Cash Blackbear in Girl Gone Missing”
― Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing