Eva Pohler

“What’s so funny?” “You freak out when I disappear and reappear, but you expect me to stop time.” She laughed, too. “But why can’t you? You’re a god.” “Like I said, we have more responsibilities than freedoms. I doubt even Zeus could pull that one off.” From high above, a streak of light flew from the sky and struck a boulder not twenty feet from where they lay, sending sparks and smoke and a loud crack in all directions in the echoing valley. The boulder was split in half and was as black as coal. “Holy crap!” Therese cried, falling against Than. “What was that?” “Oops. My apologies,” he muttered, but it didn’t sound like he was talking to her. “I made someone angry.” “That scared me to death. Does that happen often?” “No. Never to me. But this is an exceptional time in my life.”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“Sometimes less is more.”
― Eva Pohler, The Mystery Box

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Tell Daddy to turn off the broccoli! It’s probably burned!” Casey shouts something back, maybe that the kitchen cabinets are on fire, but Yvette backs out onto the road and drives off.”
― Eva Pohler, The Mystery Box

“Whenever I drink too much, I get this craving for bread.” He watched me with amusement as I mashed two slices together and ate them, like an eager communicant”
― Eva Pohler, The Mystery Box