Darkness Stirring Quotes

“Lori parked on the street in front of the Mulberry Café. The restaurant stood on the edge of downtown Clare,”
― J.R. Erickson, Darkness Stirring

“All the cities where the girls had disappeared bordered the Manistee National Forest.”
― J.R. Erickson, Darkness Stirring

“One evening, Carmen and her best friend Summer went for a walk in the woods. Ben and Carmen lived in a house about a mile away from the Manistee National Forest, which is like a huge forest on the west side of the state.”
― J.R. Erickson, Darkness Stirring

“The goal is to heal, not to create a new form of trauma. The child will not be healed by feeling they have finally beaten the beast. This is a parent, after all. It is hardwired in our biology to seek the love and support of this entity.”
― J.R. Erickson, Darkness Stirring

“After my family fell apart, the perfect little family, I was liberated. I quit the football team and joined drama. I stopped wearing my varsity jacket and the cool clothes of the time, and shopped thrift stores instead, buying sixties corduroy bell-bottoms and hitting the surplus store for army jackets and fatigues. I decided I was beholden to no one—least of all myself and those fixed ideals I'd developed that turned out to be little more than ant hills.”
― J.R. Erickson, Darkness Stirring