Amy K. Green > Quotes

“Realizing that I could be my own person, that I didn't need to hide, and that I didn't need to hurt people-that was nice, I guess. But that's not how I had spent my thirty-year existence up to that point, and a few storybook epiphanies weren't going to reset the way I processed the world and the people in it. The frosting was pretty, but I worried the cake was still rotten.”
― Amy K. Green, Haven't Killed in Years

“Sometimes I tell myself I didn’t realize I was killing him. How could a nine-year-old really understand the physics of it? But I knew. When his blood covered the rock, I knew. When he stopped moving, I knew.”
― Amy K. Green, Haven't Killed in Years

“You cannot assume everyone is out to get you; you have to assume they want something from you,”
― Amy K. Green, Haven't Killed in Years

“wrap,”
― Amy K. Green, Haven't Killed in Years

“The second you assume anything about another person, you lose the upper hand.”
― Amy K. Green, Haven't Killed in Years