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

“People say we are defined by the choices that we make;”

“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.”

“Sometimes things need to get broken”

“... 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.”