27 Quotes by Aaron Hartzler

How can they walk around in the hallways at school like nothing happened? Like they didn’t witness – ” My voice dissolves into tears again. “A crime?” Lindsey says without moving. “Yeah.” “They don’t think it was a crime,” she says quietly.

Even when presented with the evidence itself, there are some phenomena that I will never grasp completely.

Some moments should only be recorded in our hearts.

Turns out any ordinary place can be made extraordinary by the presence of the right person.

Not being able to say no isn’t the same as saying yes.

Don’t judge a book by its cover. Mom is always saying that, but most of the time, I think that’s exactly what people are asking us to do: Please. Judge me by my cover. Judge me by exactly what I’ve worked so hard to show you.

Fear is the reason I can’t let this go, either. It’s the reason Rachel needs to believe that whatever happened is Stacey’s fault. It’s why she insists that we’re all very different from Stacey. Because the truth is that if it could happen to Stacey, it could happen to any of us. By.

Sometimes, change happens over eons. Other times, in the blink of an eye.

There’s no going back. Once you know something for sure, the only path through it is forward. Alfred.