Shadow Baby Quotes

“Stories are the way you look at the world. . . . stories are your salvation.”
― Alison McGhee, Shadow Baby

“Books? Books are sacred. Books are to me what the host is to the priest, the oasis to the desert wanderer, the arrival of winged seraphim to a dying man.”
― Alison McGhee, Shadow Baby

“Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it."
He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.”
― Alison McGhee, Shadow Baby

“If you know how to read, you know how forever. You can't unread.”
― Alison McGhee, Shadow Baby

“Exclamation marks kept stabbing out into the air after the words that I didn't want to let out. Stab and stab and stab, words and more hurtful words pushing against each other inside me, dying to get out.”
― Alison McGhee, Shadow Baby

“Let me tell you that a girl of eleven is capable of far more than is dreamt of in most universes.”
― Alison McGhee, Shadow Baby

“What sorts of books are placed by garbage cans on garbage night in the town of Sterns? Mainly they're old class books, the kind people carry around in boxes in their basements for twenty years and then one day think: I will never again in my entire life open this book and there is no sense in its taking up valuable space in my basement, and they throw them out. Right out by the garbage cans they put them, in cardboard boxes with the bottoms falling out.
Books should not ever be treated that way. It's a sin to treat a book that way. That's what I believe to be true.”
― Alison McGhee, Shadow Baby