Quote by Lauren Wolk
““I thought about how people seemed always to keep their distance. And how I always made sure to keep mine. The schoolmaster, Mr. Henderson, had sanitized the door latch I'd touched. And Mr. Johnson, the postmaster, had wanted to sanitized my letter before he handled it. Two people slow to change. But the others? I suppose I ought to think about them one by one.””
![“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the other business that occupied my brain, but I wouldn't unlid those boxes until I was ready to hear [his]…” quote by Lauren Wolk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/387/lauren-wolk-34546_burden-of-the-past_i-didn-t-tell-him-that-i-d-put-his-awful_1846420.jpg)
