Kaley Shook

“In our neighborhood, the problem wasn’t the person who made the mistake; it was the person who acknowledged the truth.”
― Jess Lourey, The Quarry Girls

“It was that she was wrong. We do need people, every one of us. In fact, it’s impossible to do the hard stuff alone. I was sorrier than anything that my mom didn’t know that.”
― Jess Lourey, Litani

“That’s the thing about small-town boys. All they had to do was come up with that one shtick, a crack at just the right time, or a Hail Mary touchdown, or nail the part of Romeo in the class play, and they were set. They never had to try again. Here’s the thing about small-town girls: we let them get away with it. But not now. I didn’t have time for it.”
― Jess Lourey, Unspeakable Things

“Less of the worst was better than more.”
― Gregg Olsen, If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood