Caroline

“I thought of trying to catch her eye, so she’d know I understood what she’d done, but I decided not to. Everyone needs to think they have secrets.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“But you don't know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then . . . and then it was just me.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“When I go to the woods now, I always head out along the brook and go straight to the big maple. I run there, like Toby must have done on that stormy night, then I bend down and crawl on the earth. Because what if there’s a clue? What if there’s a piece of chunky strawberry bubble gum still bundled up in its waxy wrapper, or a weather-faded matchbook, or a fallen button from somebody’s big gray coat? What if buried under all those leaves is me? Not this me, but the girl in a Gunne Sax dress with the back zipper open. The girl with the best boots in the world. What if she’s under there? What if she’s crying? Because she will be, if I find her. Her tears tell the story of what she knows. That the past, present, and future are just one thing. That there’s nowhere to go from here. Home is home is home.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home