Jack Kruse

“Love isn't about keeping promises. It's about knowing someone better than anyone else. I'm the only one who knows him. I'm the only one who ever will.”
― Hannah Tinti, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

“Those who are dead aren’t worth dying for.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“He kept expecting something to happen, some outside force to sweep in and change everything and take him in some new direction, give him a more normal life.”
― Hannah Tinti, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

“For the first time he had something to lose, and it was funny how that changed things, how it made Hawley imagine himself living past the next day, into the next week, the next year. He’d started wearing his seatbelt. He brushed his teeth. Sometimes he fell so deeply inside his new life that the edges of himself felt like they were coming loose. Then Lily would catch him in one of his old habits—checking and rechecking the locks, or doubling back on streets when he thought they were being followed—and the years he’d spent alone would rise up solidly around him, resonating in the dark like blood pushed out of a pinprick.”
― Hannah Tinti, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley