Eli

“You picked that out?” Caine asked. “That pink, plastic toy?”

I turned to look at him. “I happen to have been a little girl, once upon a time, detective. I know what they like. Every little girl wants to be a princess.”

A thoughtful frown overcame the angry tension on Caine’s rugged face. “And what happens when they grow up?”

I thought of my mother and sisters and all the horrors that had happened the day they’d died. A bitter laugh escaped from my tight lips.

“Then they just want to be little girls again.”
― Jennifer Estep, Spider's Bite

“here it was the whole world wrapped inside my arms
And I let it all slip away”
― Rascal Flatts

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody