Erin

“You must give her the time she needs. Tell her that, tell her you will will wait for her. When she knows you will not push her, I think it will mean more to her.”
― Keira Montclair, Jake

“We were an oldest sister growing up, and a middle sister being left behind. A youngest sister wanting to belong.”
― Heather Young

“She either loves the lad who beat her, or there's someone else there she loves.”
― Keira Montclair, Jake

“Leni shook her head, feeling a familiar sadness creep in. She could never tell him how it felt to live with a dad who scared you sometimes and a mother who loved him too much and make him prove how much he loved her in dangerous ways. Like flirting.
These were Leni's secrets. Her burdens. She couldn't share them.
All this time, all these years, she'd dreamed of having a real friend, one who would tell her everything. How had she missed the obvious?
Leni couldn't have a real friend because she couldn't be one.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone