Elizabeth Havens

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

“peace that comes from a lifetime of shared experience, of understanding the things that made us.”
― Anstey Harris, The House of Lost Secrets

“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

“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