Katie

“My heart, as I closed the cabinet and rose to my feet, was a small dead creature. If I could bury it in the woods, I would.”
― Lauren Myracle, Shine

“She pulled into a parking space on the side of the road, put her hand to her chest, and sat for a bit. Then she said that the man already knew he was the one in the wrong, and being wrong had embarrassed him. Since he didn't like feeling that way, he unloaded his bad feelings onto her.

"Huh?" we'd said.

"Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.”
― Lauren Myracle, Shine

“I'd heard a saying about meth, that it took you down one of three roads: jail, the psych ward, or death.”
― Lauren Myracle, Shine

“Wally was worse than any fairy-tale witch, and his trailer wasn't made of candy.”
― Lauren Myracle, Shine