8 Quotes by Jordan Harper

She had a teddy bear in her arms and murder in her eyes.

It was an intimate moment, this moment between robber and victim. A gun to the head made you naked.

Either you teach her how to take a punch or the world does.

You got to feel weak to get strong. Don’t run away from it.

It didn’t matter that it wasn’t real. It only mattered that it was true.

She thought it was the police who were really missing. They were the ones who weren’t where they were supposed to be, which was coming to get her.

The underpass was a tent city. The people living there dirty faced and unfed. Refugees of a war only they knew about.

She buried her head in a towel. She scrubbed, not just her hair, but her face too, the towel scratching, pressing it into the sockets of her eyes until she saw color galaxies be born and die in the dark behind her eyelids.