They're Gone Quotes

“The same voice that urged her to take Kim out of school whenever the nation was sent reeling from another school shooting.”
― E.A. Barres, They're Gone

“And now the laws of her reality were unwritten.”
― E.A. Barres, They're Gone

“Scott Temple had built a business based on the unreliability of men, and now that same unreliability was undoing his work.”
― E.A. Barres, They're Gone

“And so Temple’s idea had developed. A plan to expose the nature of men in the highest reaches of society, or hold them hostage. And to do it by taking advantage of the poorest, the most wretched, the people he’d grown up with and reviled.”
― E.A. Barres, They're Gone

“But he thought about Deb and still felt that sorrow of unrequited love. The love that confused him, overwhelmed him. The unceasing thoughts, the way her face burned into his mind, a powerful iron cattle brand pressed and seared into his brain. Price hoped it was different this time, but his love only ever ended in one place, in one way. All the women he’d loved were dead.”
― E.A. Barres, They're Gone

“Price recognized something in Seth, the kind of recognition animals in the wild experience, not kinship, not hate. Wolves watching each other across a field, before turning and disappearing back into the wild. Death didn’t come for Seth.”
― E.A. Barres, They're Gone

“There was an ostracizing element Deb had always felt growing up with her white friends, a sense that they were free to do and say whatever they wanted, and it played into a type of superiority. Deb never felt allowed to be that superior … or even that such a feeling was right.”
― E.A. Barres, They're Gone

“I don’t feel that way with Rebecca. If anything, it’s nice to be with someone just as honest and intimate and vulnerable as I am. It’s scary, and it’s hard not to have your guard up. But it’s nice.”
― E.A. Barres, They're Gone

“Deb had always found that men took this kind of news differently than women. Men needed to accept it, to first rationalize what it meant to them. Almost as if they worried that by accepting this change, their own sexuality would be threatened.”
― E.A. Barres, They're Gone

“The fact that his reluctance to find work was really his lack of interest in a regular job. And when he first hit her, that’s when she realized how corruption had stained his soul. And she realized she’d made a horrible mistake.”
― E.A. Barres, They're Gone

“Now in her early forties, Deb was of an age when tragedy was striking her friends: rapidly moving cancer, the slow death of parents. But not violence. It felt like the worst kind of horror, one that Deb thought she’d been spared.”
― E.A. Barres, They're Gone