Suzanne Handler > Quotes

“All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.” – Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow”
― Suzanne Handler, The Secrets They Kept: The True Story of a Mercy Killing that Shocked a Town and Shamed a Family

“lunatics” because it was thought they were born under the spell of a full moon.”
― Suzanne Handler, The Secrets They Kept: The True Story of a Mercy Killing that Shocked a Town and Shamed a Family

“Convinced I was unwanted, the sadness of my childhood escalated into the rebellion of my youth. My sour disposition, and what I perceived as my mother’s blatant disinterest in my life, left me floundering.”
― Suzanne Handler, The Secrets They Kept: The True Story of a Mercy Killing that Shocked a Town and Shamed a Family