“The real horror of my life is not that I’ve killed some terrible people. The real horror is that the people I’ve loved didn’t love me back.”
― Hidden Bodies
― Hidden Bodies
“The Valley of Unrest,’” she repeats. “It’s a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. ‘They had gone unto the wars, trusting to the mild-eyed stars, nightly, from their azure towers, to keep watch above the flowers’ . . . I like Poe. There’s something refreshing about a man who’s so unabashedly morose.”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
“Are we living in such a throwaway society that we’re not even allowed to hang on to our hatred and remorse?”
― The Cleaner
― The Cleaner
“I think a trauma doesn’t stop just because you’ve been rescued.”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
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