Sarah

“They're your parents. They're meant to love you because. Never in spite.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“One day soon, you’ll hear a car pull up to your curb, an engine cut out. You’ll hear footsteps coming up your front walk. Like they did for Edward Wayne Edwards, twenty-nine years after he killed Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew, in Sullivan, Wisconsin. Like they did for Kenneth Lee Hicks, thirty years after he killed Lori Billingsley, in Aloha, Oregon.

The doorbell rings.

No side gates are left open. You’re long past leaping over a fence. Take one of your hyper, gulping breaths. Clench your teeth. Inch timidly toward the insistent bell.

This is how it ends for you.

“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark,” you threatened a victim once.

Open the door. Show us your face.

Walk into the light.”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“You are never too old, too small, or too late to live the life you’re meant to lead. Especially if it means rewriting the rules to do it.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing