3 Quotes by Paula Saunders

So, you might say she was a spoiled, selfish child, ready to take for herself what rightfully belonged to her brother, regardless of his lost hopes or dashed feelings, his trouble or despair. Or you might say she was just a girl who wanted to learn to dance, or maybe even a girl who'd found a way to hear her father's laughter and see his eyes light up and was determined not to let that go.

As the years went by, Leon would find himself sitting on a ledge like that again and again, staring into some endless darkness, wondering how the ground beneath him could shift so suddenly, how he could be so easily cast out, dismissed, discarded for something he hadn't meant to do and didn't know how to fix.

It's like we grew up in a war zone," he told Rene. He laughed. "God. Jesus." He got serious. "I'm not kidding," he said.