Quotes from Barbara Davis

She'd grown up hard and fast, the way most children of addicts did, and had learned a thing or two along the way. At ten, she learned that no address was permanent, at twelve, that no promise was sacred, and at sixteen, that there was no such thing as safe. There were other lessons too. Lessons that were still etched in her mind—and her flesh.

Sometimes you get a feeling about someone the minute you meet them. You just know who they are, and what they're all about.

She had waited for the stab of jealousy the first time she heard the name, had braced for the squeeze in her chest, the heaviness in the pit of her stomach, the things any red-blooded wife should feel.

Sometimes it just is what it is, Wade. There are things we can change and things we can't. The key is knowing the difference.

It was my compass; a direction I could point myself in every day and say this is who I am now, this is what I do. The store is your compass.