“My mother, stuck in Two Rivers with a head full of unfulfilled dreams, escaped every chance she got via the Two Rivers Free Library - her library card both a passport and necessary currency for her travels.”

“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.”

“We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.Piper”

“Sometimes things need to get broken”

“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.”

“... I thought about things stolen from me. I thought about the thieves I had known.”

“And everything with you is always so, I don't know, fucking heavy.”