Quotes from Karen Fossum

She pulled the blanket tighter around her, as if to demonstrate her vulnerability. "Anything can happen," she said. "Haven't you realized that yet?

Memories of her dying. All the pain she went through. It's a little like living by a waterfall," he said. The years go by and I'm worn down by the continuous roar. Which I can never shut off. But it was the card I drew in this life.

Words that were accompanied by her arm, which held him tightly, and by her warm, assured voice: she was an adult and she knew certain things. Security was part of his innermost core, and his entire life rested upon it.