“And Juniper had understood, somehow, that in Tom she'd found the person who could balance her, and that more than anything, to fall in love was to be caught, to be saved...”
― The Distant Hours
― The Distant Hours
“A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven”
― The Secret Keeper
― The Secret Keeper
“Her eyes, though tired, had the glint of one who never stopped expecting to be amused, and her mouth turned up at the corners as if she'd just remembered a joke. It was the sort of face that drew strangers , that enchanted them and made them want to know her better. The way she had of making you feel, with a slight twitch of the jaw, that she had suffered as you did, that everything would be better now simply for having come within her orbit: that was her real beauty - her presence, her joy, her magnetism. That, and her splendid appetite for the make-believe.”
― The Secret Keeper
― The Secret Keeper
“There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.”
― The Secret Keeper
― The Secret Keeper
“... wondering how it was that one person's absence could rob the day so wholly of its shape and meaning.”
― The Distant Hours
― The Distant Hours
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