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“Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.”
― Island of Lost Girls
― Island of Lost Girls
“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”
― The Winter People
― The Winter People
“Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don’t you think? For doing terrible things to other people.”
― The Winter People
― The Winter People
“Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.”
― Don't Breathe a Word
― Don't Breathe a Word
“...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.”
― Don't Breathe a Word
― Don't Breathe a Word
“we all do what we think is best. Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, sometimes we do the right thing. Sometimes we never know. We just have to hope”
― The Winter People
― The Winter People
“Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I? A: Memories — A FOLK RIDDLE”
― The Winter People
― The Winter People
“Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.”
― Don't Breathe a Word
― Don't Breathe a Word
“And, as in all fairy tales, there was bloodshed, there was loss.”
― The Winter People
― The Winter People
“She was his great adventure; his love for her had taken him places he'd never dreamed of going.”
― The Winter People
― The Winter People
“The tragedies we endure shape our lives: we carry them like shadows,”
― The Children on the Hill
― The Children on the Hill
“Lisa smiled. 'You know how sometimes, you catch the faintest hint of movement in the corner of your eye, then you blink and it's gone? That's them.”
― Don't Breathe a Word
― Don't Breathe a Word
“the dead can blame”
― Promise Not to Tell
― Promise Not to Tell
“How can you dream if you don’t have a soul?”
― The Winter People
― The Winter People
“Grief is a monster.”
― The Drowning Kind
― The Drowning Kind
“The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.”
― Don't Breathe a Word
― Don't Breathe a Word
“Young Reverend Ayers looks at a lake and sees only his own reflection in it; that is what God is to him. He does not see the creatures that live down deep, the dragonflies that hover, the frog on the lily pad.” Auntie’s face was full of pity and scorn as she shook her head and spat tobacco juice again. “His heart and mind are closed to the true beauty of the lake, the place where all its magic lies.”
― The Winter People
― The Winter People
“And deep down, she felt like maybe she didn't deserve it-that she belonged with the petty thieves and guys who drank Pabst Blue Ribbon for breakfast”
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“Think of me. Remember me. Love me.”
― Don't Breathe a Word
― Don't Breathe a Word
“I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.”
― My Tiki Girl
― My Tiki Girl
“What people don’t understand, they destroy.”
― The Invited
― The Invited
“I don’t believe places can be haunted. Only people, and not in a supernatural way. People are only haunted by their pasts.”
― The Children on the Hill
― The Children on the Hill
“I think people see what they want to see... But think about it: if you'd lost someone you love, wouldn't you give almost anything to have the chance to see them again?”
― The Winter People
― The Winter People
“For some people, Rose, it’s easier to pretend the things that frighten us most don’t exist at all.”
― The Night Sister
― The Night Sister
“All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.”
― The One I Left Behind
― The One I Left Behind
“The people who are stuck between here and there, waiting. It reminds me of winter, how everything is all pale and cold and full of nothing, and all you can do is wait for spring.”
― The Winter People
― The Winter People
“What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?”
― Don't Breathe a Word
― Don't Breathe a Word
“she swore she was breathing 1971 air—it smelled like dust and cigarettes and long-faded perfume. Like ghosts, if ghosts had a smell.”
― The Night Sister
― The Night Sister
“For everyone out there who has the good sense to be a little afraid when swimming in deep, dark water. You tell yourself there’s nothing down there, but there is. There always is.”
― The Drowning Kind
― The Drowning Kind
“Some people are made stronger by loss. Others are broken by it.”
― The Night Sister
― The Night Sister
