Amma: Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen to you?
Camile: It’s safer to be feared than loved.
“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”
Adora : You were always so willful, never sweet.
“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”
Karen: I gave you good stuff. You don’t want to burn this bridge.
“I’ve always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.”
Camile: My demons are not remotely tackled.
“I’m here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I’m panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I’m here. I don’t usually feel that I am. I feel like a warm gust of wind could exhale my way and I’d be disappeared forever, not even a sliver of fingernail left behind. On some days, I find this thought calming; on others it chills me.”
Camile: I’m an unconventional girl. That’s what you like about me.
Curry: Wind Gap. There was a murder there. Another one’s missing. Get me a story.
“Sometimes I think I won’t ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don’t have to worry about life anymore.”
Adora : It hurts me that you don’t trust me to do the best for you.
“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.”
Amma: I’m just her little doll to dress up.
“Everyone has their own version of a memory,”
Adora : My mama says all of history was written by men, so of course they’re gonna make themselves look good.
“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”
Adora : I just want things to be nice with us but maybe I just don’t know how.
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
Amma: When you let them do it to you, you’re really doing it to them.
“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”
Camile: My demons are not remotely tackled.
“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
Camile: Just because it’s a small town doesn’t mean we’re all rubes. Believe it or not, some of us read. We even write.
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you’re really doing it to them.”
Girl: What if, after you die, part of you goes to heaven, part of you stays here, just to see how things turn out?
Vickery : We need to talk about your daughters. One of them is dangerous and the other ones in danger.
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