“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
“Who are you, Dorothy?" she said beneath her breath. "Who were you, before you became Ma?”
― The Secret Keeper
― The Secret Keeper
“It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark, every unexplained melancholy, took the shadowy form of the same unanswered question, something that had been there since she was sixteen years old— her mother's unspoken secret.”
― The Secret Keeper
― The Secret Keeper
“And as the train whistled its imminent departure, a small girl wearing neat plaits and someone else's shoes climbed its iron stairs. Smoke filled the platform, people waved and hollered, a stray dog ran barking through the crowds. Nobody noticed as the little girl stepped over the shadowed threshold; not even Aunt Ada, who some might've expected to be sheperherding her orphaned niece towards her uncertain future. And so, when the essence of light and life that had been Vivien Longmeyer contracted itself for safekeeping and disappeared deep inside her, the world kept moving and nobody saw it happen.”
― The Secret Keeper
― The Secret Keeper
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