No One Will Miss Her Quotes

“Copper Falls was a place where your role was assigned early and permanently; once people had decided who you were, they’d simply never allow you to be anyone else. Your label was what it was, for better or for worse.”
― Kat Rosenfield, No One Will Miss Her

“People see what they expect to see, once they think they know who you are. Their ideas are a ghost that floats ahead of you into every room, waiting until you arrive and then clinging all over you, grimy, opaque. It builds up around you over the course of a lifetime, layer by layer, until the ghost-you made of other people's judgments is all anyone sees.”
― Kat Rosenfield, No One Will Miss Her

“Bet you anything they pull some blood off it that matches our deceased.”
― Kat Rosenfield, No One Will Miss Her

“had a life. I want you to understand that. It might not have been much to look at, but it was mine. If I’d had the choice, I would have kept living it.”
― Kat Rosenfield, No One Will Miss Her

“life had never given him a reason not to. The young officer who stood in the lake house that morning was not just an adventurous, inquisitive man, but still an optimistic one, buoyed by a subconscious certainty that nothing bad would happen to him simply because nothing bad ever had.”
― Kat Rosenfield, No One Will Miss Her