14 Quotes by T.E. Carter

People don't debate what defines murder. Politicians don't argue the body's ability to fight off being killed. There's no talk of "murder culture." No one says that you asked for murder. What you wear doesn't excuse being killed.

They condemn our town. Separate it from their own, where the same secrets pulse.

Girls disappear. Girls are brought to secret places to be used and nothing is done, because it's how things are. Because they're only girls.

The court of public opinion moves much faster than the law.

Winter broke the trees and now it's breaking all the people, too.

Nobody ever wants to be inconvenienced by all the things that happen to girls.

Misconduct. I wish they'd call it for what it is. Misconduct sounds like something you do to earn yourself a time-out as a toddler.

I miss what we were, but we aren’t that anymore, and it’s better to get away from the memories of all we could have been.

The thing about my diary is that I lied in it. I obscured the truth. I never told even the empty space around me the whole story. I was afraid someone would find it, read it, know me. I wanted them to know a different girl. A better one.