Hit and Run Quotes

“Trust was bad. Once she trusted someone, they could disappoint her, and she’d get hurt. Getting hurt was just not something she wanted to go through again. She’d fought long and hard to come back from the pain her foster mom had caused. Trust was a painful word for her.”
― Lori Matthews, Hit and Run

“It was too much. The joy and laughter and love this little girl had given her was gone, and yet she was still able to give a last gift. The most precious gift of all.”
― Lori Matthews, Hit and Run

“It was funny how having nothing left to lose made her stronger than she’d ever been. Gage was already lost to her, and Carly was soon to be gone forever. What did it matter now if she made it out or not?”
― Lori Matthews, Hit and Run

“I’ll continue to protect you. I will not leave you alone to face this. But you have to tell me the whole story. It’s the only way I know to guarantee your safety. Lies are opportunities for things to go wrong.”
― Lori Matthews, Hit and Run

“He hadn’t been thinking. He’d been feeling again. One minute, Dani was tough and being a hard-ass and the next she was all vulnerable and needed help. He didn’t know which one appealed to him more. Either way, it had to stop. It didn’t matter that she was a smart, sassy, beautiful woman. She was out of bounds.”
― Lori Matthews, Hit and Run

“Growing up in foster care, she would look at the hands of any new boyfriend her foster mom brought into the house and try to calculate if they had hands that liked to hit.”
― Lori Matthews, Hit and Run