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1 " Maybe if you carried bad memories around long enough, they started to change how you walked, how you talked. How you thought. "
― Julia Keller
2 " We are defined not so much by what we're reading, as by what we're reading next. "
3 " The past was a tricky bastard. It called and called to you—and when you turned around and tried to grasp it, it disappeared. "
― Julia Keller , Last Ragged Breath (Bell Elkins, #4)
4 " There was a time when he'd envied anyone who left Acker's Gap, when he watched them go and felt a kind of wild yearning--but something was shifting inside him. There was a certain solace to knowing a world this well. You knew its flaws, its shortcomings, just as you knew its beauties. And you learned to love it all. You loved the abundance of it, the sweep and immensity of the land, and you loved the sadness and the lack, too.To walk each day on ground that had given rise to you: that was a privilege. Not a curse. "
5 " She knew the truth of the old West Virginia aphorism: Hit dogs howl. If you felt like someone had done you wrong, you reacted. You had to. Didn’t you? "
6 " Bell never did find an artful way to her endless line of callers that nothing-- not even a mother- in- law's decades-long obnoxiousness --justified murder. "
― Julia Keller , A Killing in the Hills (Bell Elkins, #1)
7 " They awoke hours later to a battering-ram headache and upended chairs and shattered glassware and a large lurking pocket of nothingness where the memory of the night before ought to have been. "
― Julia Keller , Sorrow Road (Bell Elkins, #5)