Where They Found Her

Life is uncomfortable. I can’t hide from it

Not everything about where you’re headed, Molly, has to be about where you’ve been

Not everything about where you’re going has to be about where you’ve been.

We’d told her the basics—Mommy and Daddy would live apart from now on, but that they both still loved her just as much. And no, Daddy wasn’t coming home soon. He wasn’t coming home ever. Civility, I was committed to that. But that was all.

It’s the truth that lights the fuse.”

was trying to hide it less and less. Almost like he wanted Barbara to get so mad that she’d break up with him. It wasn’t just his looking at Jenna that was the problem either. It was the way he was looking—love, that was the look on his face.

There are some things too horrible for even the strongest box to contain.

These things don’t just go away, no matter how much you hope they will. And the harder you try to force them down, the harder they push their way back to the surface. I’m saying that from personal experience.”

“I remember.”
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) E. E. Cummings

And you can’t make a fire by pretending there’s a spark