How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Because that is what happens when you try to run from the past. It doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home. (17.44)
There's no running from a secret like the one that Annabel is holding inside. She's tried pretty hard to pretend that she was never raped, but by the end of the story she realizes that she can't keep pushing the memory away—she has to confront it.