Beartown (Beartown, #1)

“We're a small town, Maya. We stay together.”

Small towns protect their stars even when they ruin lives. Seeing Maya stand alone while the town cheered for Kevin broke my heart.

“Everything is hockey.”

Hockey is the only thing keeping the lights on in that forest. People let a game become their entire morality.

“He knows what he saw.”

Amat stayed in the shadows to do what was right. He risked his only way out of poverty just to tell the truth.

“Being a parent is a hopeless job.”

Peter and Kira try so hard to be good parents. It shows how love feels like failing when you cannot protect your children from the world.