Emily

“Without science, there would be no you;
without you, the future would offer a much narrower prospect.”
― Val McDermid, Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime

“I’d pretended I was fine, pretended I’d moved on, but the truth was, the past was still open inside me, like a half-cracked door, because it was a raw, unhealed wound.”
― Ashley Winstead, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

“I’d forgotten the difference between choosing not to participate and being excluded.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“That’s not to say I didn’t think about you. I thought about you a lot when you were gone, though all I ever knew was the absence of you.”
― Mary Kubica, Local Woman Missing