“He'd pulled her into his arms and kissed her. Softly on the lips. Then softly on her forehead. 'You'll be my main snag? Okay?' he'd said. 'Okay,' she'd replied into his jean jacket. And he left, neither f them saying goodbye or waving. Cash locked the door and crawled back into bed. Caught unaware, she felt the huge emptiness of all the people who had ever left her. It was the first time in years that she remembered feeling like crying. Instead she went back to sleep.” LoveLoss Book:Girl Gone Missing Source: Girl Gone Missing
“Geno shrugged. Cash recognized the shrug. She herself brushed off things that were important to her. Too many dreams had been dashed. Too many hopes lost. If you didn't want something too much, it didn't hurt that much if you didn't get it.” Disassociation Book:Sinister Graves Source: Sinister Graves
“As a kid in foster homes, she had a nightly dilemma. Night wasn't always the safest time. Should she sleep with the lights off so she was harder to find in the dark? Or should she sleep with the lights on so she could see who was coming to get her? Some families forced her to shut the lights off to save electricity. Before she got older and learned better, that would send her into a tailspin of wondering, late into the night, where and how electricity was saved. You can't see electricity. Except for lightning. So just where and how was it saved? She imagined giant metal storage bins somewhere in the country filled with shooting lightning bolts.” AbuseFoster Care Book:Girl Gone Missing Source: Girl Gone Missing
“Happens more than we want to know. There are Indian kids, just like your brother, heck just like me, all over this Valley. Fostered out, adopted out, working their fingers to the bone--heck, many of them not being properly fed so they are nothing but muscle and bone to begin with, thinking that if they just do good enough, maybe, just maybe, someday they will actually belong. Mostly what I see is once they've been used up--in some cases broken beyond repair--they're thrown away like all the battered farm equipment you see sitting in the back of farmyards, back by the windbreak." - Cash Blackbear in Girl Gone Missing” BrokenAdoptionMinnesotaIndigenous RightsNative American History Book:Girl Gone Missing Source: Girl Gone Missing