36 quotes found
“One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.”
“Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.”
“Prayer is better than pills.”
“The breeze around them seemed to drop dead like a door to the best things had just closed.”
“He had become the sky around the sun alive, but not really there.”
“Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is ...”
“On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always ha...”
“A silence absorbed them both a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.”
“Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.”
“Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasnt been asked The Qu...”
“He remembers how someone he forgets who once said in a sarcastic tone, Isnt she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light? and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously rea...”
“Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.”
“She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice only later did she realise it was that thing hed been concealing known as guilt.”
“Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.”
“The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.”
“Shush its silent time again.”
“Youngsters deserve no opinions.”
“Ive always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.”
“Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher her asabikeshiinh with its willow-web and invisible lady spider apparently weaving her spells an object Bea insisted always hung above her i...”
“Ill be your friend until you find a better one.”
