49 Quotes by Jane Harper

They don’t realise what they do at that age can still haunt them years later.

Outside, washing hung still on the rotary line, bone dry and stiff from the sun. A child’s scooter lay abandoned on the stepping-stone path. Just one human heart beat within a kilometer radius of the farm. So nothing reacted when, deep inside the house, the baby started crying.

We need to be looking out for each other, not at each other.

Hidden somewhere in the dark, the cicadas screeched.