Elizabeth Havens

“Sudden death is a bomb exploding above you, blindingly bright and showering you with its fragments every time you close your eyes. My thoughts are still shocked, ringing with white noise and scattering around in panic.”
― Anstey Harris, The House of Lost Secrets

“The music starts again. Two bars, then four. The song is “I’ll Melt with You” by Modern English. Nicole and Louisa scream. They were both babies when this song came out, but that doesn’t matter: they recognize it for the happy high school dancing romantic anthem that it has been forever and ever. They take over the dance floor at the Myrtle Street Tavern on the last night in July, as summer turns the corner in Rockland, Maine, and they dance like two friends with everything ahead of them and nothing behind.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, Vacationland

“She holds the book to her chest and gives in to the grief.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, Vacationland

“Books are feelings,” he replied simply. “They exist to make us feel. To connect us to what’s inside, sometimes to things we don’t even know are there. It only makes sense that some of what we feel when we’re reading would . . . rub off.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books