7 Quotes by E.K. Barnes

Sometimes we need a change in perspective.

I didn't dare move. Period. That's how it was in the RV. That's how it was in my room nine years later. That's how I survived. That's how I would continue to survive.

I guess the years aren't done stealing good people away from us. Soon, only the bad will remain.

Nobody goes trick-or-treating anymore. The monsters have gotten too real.

The blood of Christ. More like the blood of children.

I guess he didn't know. I guess he didn't know that good people die when bad things happen to them. The rest of us don't get the luxury of mercy.

I remembered the mountain lion, who smelled the blood and devoured its already deceased prey. It had looked at me longingly, licking its lips. We knew in time I would be his next snack.