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“Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, A Corner of White

“Early on, when they'd just started home schooling together, he'd written a note on the margin of her page: "What's your star sign?"

She'd turned to him, "What does my star sigh?" and he'd seen how much she'd liked the idea that she owned a star, and that it sighed; he'd seen in her eyes that her mind was rushing through the possible words that it could sigh.

It's true that his handwriting was bad: the "n" looked a lot like an "h."

But when he's crossed it out and written "sign," underlining the "n" three times, a vagueness had wandered onto her face, and she'd thought for a moment, then said, "Pisces," and smiled.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, A Corner of White

“There was something in the moonlight tonight. It was stroking the stonework and spires, leaning into cracks between the cobblestones, caressing the stained-glass windows. She felt her heart lift with magic.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, The Cracks in the Kingdom

“How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you'll be.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, The Cracks in the Kingdom

“The world is made of more than particles. It's made of things you can't hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, The Cracks in the Kingdom

“Ah, even sitting here on my front porch, looking out over the fields, there's a part of me aches to see him walking. To conjure him out of the sunlight in the distance. The shape of my dad, I can almost see it, crossing the field toward me. Come to put his arm around me, reach out an arm to my mother as well, and I'll close my eyes and just breathe.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, A Corner of White

“Madeleine Tully turned fourteen yesterday, but today she did not turn anything. Oh, wait. She turned a page.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, A Corner of White

“Here come the colours of Madeleine, thought Jack, and the colours went right through his bloodstream now, sailing on tiny boats — spinnakers fixed with little toothpicks.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, A Corner of White

“Do you think there could be a universe next door?”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, The Cracks in the Kingdom

“There was one true thing. Madeleine. The relief was beautiful. He fell asleep imagining her hands in his hands, holding one another in the darkness.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, A Tangle of Gold

“Sure, we sparkled and glittered and flew through the world, but it was only an illusion of flight. We were trapped in the orbit of a man who was no longer truly there.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty