The Violent Season Quotes

“I literally have nothing left to give you anymore. You took everything from me. What else do you want?”
― Sara Walters, The Violent Season

“Must be nice to only just now feel like you’ve lost something, because it has only just now started to matter to you.”
― Sara Walters, The Violent Season

“the crime scene that was my body, to show him all the spent shell casings rattling around inside my chest.”
― Sara Walters, The Violent Season

“It felt like my life was just some kind of dark, rejected Nancy Drew novel,”
― Sara Walters, The Violent Season

“No matter how white-bread anyone might think their life is, everyone’s is somewhere on the spectrum of fucked up.”
― Sara Walters, The Violent Season

“Did rejection make us want to belong so much that we lost sight of who we were? Did pain weaken us to the point where cruelty was the only way we could stay standing? To prove we still felt anything at all?”
― Sara Walters, The Violent Season

“you really need to lose that cardigan, Nancy Drew.”
― Sara Walters, The Violent Season

“I was way better at needing him than I was at staying away, even as the bruises he’d left were still healing under my clothes.”
― Sara Walters, The Violent Season

“There was something almost delicious about sadness; even when it hurt, I still had this strange urge to feed it.”
― Sara Walters, The Violent Season