“We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of their eyes.”
“Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them - distractions necessitating action. They gave me a sense of purpose. If not for the leaky faucet, the sandwiches, the bills, I might not know what to do with my hands.”
“... I thought about things stolen from me. I thought about the thieves I had known.”
“We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.Piper”
“Sometimes things need to get broken”
“... I'm a half-empty kind of girl.”