The Night Sister Quotes

“For some people, Rose, it’s easier to pretend the things that frighten us most don’t exist at all.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Night Sister

“Some people are made stronger by loss. Others are broken by it.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Night Sister

“she swore she was breathing 1971 air—it smelled like dust and cigarettes and long-faded perfume. Like ghosts, if ghosts had a smell.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Night Sister

“Like all stories, it has pieces which are true, and pieces which are fiction. Nothing is ever really what it seems. Remember”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Night Sister

“Sometimes a butterfly is not just a butterfly. This is what Oma taught me. You know the worst thing I learned from her? You can be a monster and not even know you are one. They look like us. They think they are us. But really, they’ve got a monster hiding inside.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Night Sister

“The attic smelled like dust and mice. Piper was sure she could hear faint scuttling sounds off in the shadows, feel beady eyes upon her. She hoped it was only mice and not something larger, something more dangerous.
Was it more than rustling?
Was that faint breathing she heard coming from the darkest corner, the place where no light touched?”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Night Sister

“thoughts and words have power, and if you allow your worst fears to form fully, you run the danger of bringing them to life. As”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Night Sister