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

“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

“He said her name like it was something he'd already left behind. She could feel her heart twisting inside the walls of her chest.”
― Hannah Tinti, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

“But when she turned at the entryway and looked back at him, he left the table and followed, as if she were a magnet, drawing him away from his better judgement.”
― Hannah Tinti, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley