“At least when you are a widower, everyone expects you to be sad. Annie had loved Natalie like a sister, yet she was expected to go on with life as though Natalie meant no more to her than the checkout… — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
“Why are little kids’ cheeks so temptingly kissable, especially when they are sleeping?” — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
“how peaceful he seemed; all Dave saw was the outline of gashes down his face carefully camouflaged for an open casket.” — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
“At least when you are a widower, everyone expects you to be sad. Annie had loved Natalie like a sister, yet she was expected… — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in nature, fire caused pinecones to open and prairies to bloom. Sometimes it cleared out old dead trees to make way for new… — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
“She was doing that thing where she took out her frustrations about something else in her life on the closest victim.” — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
“If only it were harder to lie, maybe she could stop. But lying was easy. Well, easier than telling the truth. And” — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
“Our feet whispered through the grass as fireflies flickered in slow circles around” — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
“How could everyone else find it so simple to slip back into life, the world revolving, businesses opening and closing, buying and selling, when… — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
“He’d rather have a woman who wore a size ten but wanted to make love with the lights on, than a size two who… — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
“Dave did owe Lillian, more than anyone but the two of them would ever know.” — Emily Bleeker Copy Share Image
