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“And just for an instant - a second, maybe half that -he couldn't see Iris at all.”
― Benjamin Wood, The Bellwether Revivals

“The memories of my past with the love of my life, the happy life we lived as a family and the future we planned and dreamed of. It is all gone, and I don't even have the ashes to show for it.”
― Christina Sweeney-Baird, The End of Men

“As if there is every enough time to say all there is to say to someone you love.”
― Erica Ferencik, Into the Jungle

“That's what life gets reduced to in those final moments - the person you choose to hold hands with.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“This story is for them, Jen and Jonno and Nicola, and for all those who struggle with the dark. I do too.”
― Kim Kelly

“Actually, I think it's the opposite. We know each other so well there isn't anything left to say. Sometimes it's nice just sitting here with you all, thinking. It's only best friends who can be comfortable with silence, wouldn't you say?”
― Benjamin Wood, The Bellwether Revivals

“You don't know how much you love someone until you realise you're never going to see them again. That you must live in a world where they no longer are.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors and so forth--hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control.”
― Benjamin Wood, The Bellwether Revivals

“Don’t spend all of your ambition on other people’s dreams.”
― Alice Feeney , Daisy Darker

“Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you’ve got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.”
― Benjamin Wood, The Bellwether Revivals

“Those mountains had been there since before I was born, and they'd still be there when I was gone. They'd stayed standing through every tragedy I could think of, all the way right back through time, and for me, that meant something. Maybe that beauty can't really be beaten, that good things endure somewhere.”
― Joseph Knox

“Here is a girl who finally shares who she is and then is immediately punished by the world. But Jon Allan Blue is not the world. He's one man. And Abby was more than just the way her life ended.”
― Rebecca McKanna, Don't Forget the Girl

“Remember, death is forever, but so is love.”
― Kim Kelly

“The lies we tell for love are the lightest shade of white.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“My husband died, and I thought I couldn't go on living. And then I found out that even before that, you'd stolen him. There's not enough sorrow in the world to atone for that.”
― Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

“There are three female characters in the book suffering from mental illness, and they are all perceived and treated differently. One of them has recovered, one is in recovery, and was never given the chance. They are neither victims or villians. They are just people, with different needs and levels of functioning.”
― Camilla Sten, The Lost Village

“Recovered, in recovery, or struggling, we are still people. Sometimes that truth can feel like a fever dream.”
― Camilla Sten, The Lost Village

“We perceive women suffering from mental illness with a sort of paradoxical double-sidedness; both victims and monsters, simultaneously infantilized and feared.”
― Camilla Sten, The Lost Village

“A smile overwhelms my face and I have to contain myself from reaching across the table and kissing him, right then and there. And then I remember that the world is falling apart and nothing is like it used to be and I haven't been on a date in a long, long time. So I reach across, kiss him and it's the best first kiss of my life.”
― Christina Sweeney-Baird

“Girl is powerful and unapologetic about that power even though on a terrifying day, years ago, she ran.”
― Christina Sweeney-Baird, The End of Men

“Bad things and good things can coexist,” Amaya says with a sad smile. “And we have to find the good where we can.”
― Christina Sweeney-Baird, The End of Men

“I like to ask, so you know they're not forgotten. You remember them and now so do I.”
― Christina Sweeney-Baird, The End of Men

“All I ever wanted was my own family. Something solid and tangible. A family tree that went on for generations. A human need, thousands of years old, to be known. I was here.”
― Christina Sweeney-Baird, The End of Men

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
― mary anne radmacher

“If you can’t find your way back to Happy, Navigate to the place you know as Less Sad.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Sometimes the things that make one person sad are the same things that can make another person happy.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Sometimes we love monsters without knowing that's what they are.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Words don't come with gift receipts; you can't take them back.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“You should only believe in what you want to believe, and you should always believe in yourself.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“A mother's least favorite child always knows that's what they are.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker