50 Quotes by Jeanine Cummins

Because fear and corruption work in tandem to censor the people who might otherwise discover the clues that would point to justice. There will be no evidence, no due process, no vindication.

Trauma waits for stillness. Lydia feels like a cracked egg, and she doesn’t know if she’s the shell or the yolk or the white. She is scrambled.

Lydia is dubious at first, but if you can’t trust a librarian, who can you trust?

There’s a blessing in the moments after terror and before confirmation.

He seemed enlightened. But like every drug lord who’s ever risen to such a rank, he was also shrewd, merciless, and ultimately delusional. He was a vicious mass murderer who mistook himself for a gentleman. A thug who fancied himself a poet.

He wants to plead not guilty by reason of grief. She knows grief is a kind of insanity. She knows.

The brothers are a deeply calming presence. They are warm bread. They are shelter.

Lydia understands that it’s not a disguise at all. She and Luca are actual migrants.

That these people would leave their homes, their cultures, their families, even their languages, and venture into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn’t even want them.