How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
I pressed my face into her neck, and let it all go. The grief. The anger. The guilt and the shame. It would come back later. It would come back forever. We had all wanted the simplest thing, to love and be loved and be safe together, but we had lost it and I didn't know how to get it back. (22.48)
It's just as Earle says earlier in the novel: "I just don't understand sometimes, Bone, how things got so messed up, the simplest things" (9.54). Maybe the idea of wanting love is simple in and of itself, but achieving it is somehow difficult. But it seems to be the one thing that all the characters in the novel suffer from in one form or another.