Shanessa > Shanessa's Quotes

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“No marriage is unraveled by pulling a single thread. Just like no family is. Sloan understood that all too well.”
― Shanessa Gluhm, A River of Crows

“It was a marvel that any of them could keep secrets in a house this small.”
― Shanessa Gluhm, A River of Crows

“But at times, like the beginning of fall roosts, Caroline felt an unexplainable sadness. She would watch crows soar by and wish she could fly away somewhere too”
― Shanessa Gluhm, A River of Crows

“Did you know crows never forget a face?” Caroline asked quietly.”
― Shanessa Gluhm, A River of Crows

“Then she grabbed a pen and signed the divorce papers. Dad was getting out, Mom was getting out, and Sloan was getting out too.”
― Shanessa Gluhm, A River of Crows

“This was the image America saw, the only Ridge Hadfield they’d ever know. They’d all forgotten about that gap-tooth grin and shaggy hair, but Sloan never would.”
― Shanessa Gluhm, A River of Crows

“A haunted house where the ghosts hadn’t had the courtesy to die yet.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“Christian Nationalism and White Supremacy are as connected as a burning cross in front of that American flag.”
― April Ajoy, Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith

“I was now the dreaded 'Christian' in quotes.
That's like being called a MFer in evangelical.”
― April Ajoy, Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith