Harmonious Hearts 2016 - Stories from the Young Author Challenge Quotes

“I have never claimed to be a scholar of anything but my own feelings.”
― Sarah Caulfield, Harmonious Hearts 2016 - Stories from the Young Author Challenge

“Yes, I have a terror for the future, blood-and-bone deep, but when I say I don’t know who I am, I mean that I do, and I wish I did not. I mean I am trying to unknow the knowing. I know I am not quite Adam and not quite Eve, both ill-fitting and constricting as a cheap man’s shroud. I know my desires; I see them reflected back in the gloss and glaze of your eyes, Thomas, every night I can. When I say I don’t know who I am, I mean I don’t know what to do with this knowledge. I mean that this is no Eden. I mean that some days, I wish I had never even seen the apple.

I mean, some days I want you to take the apple back.”
― Sarah Caulfield, Harmonious Hearts 2016 - Stories from the Young Author Challenge

“Save it for the hangman, darling. Save it for your priest. They’ll only tell you what you’re already told about where we’ll end up. The only repetition I care for is callbacks, being alive in the morning, and your mouth. But go cry wolf to the saints if it’ll help you sleep at night.
But don’t you confess me, darling. Don’t you dare confess me.”
― Sarah Caulfield, Harmonious Hearts 2016 - Stories from the Young Author Challenge

“I wanted them to be angels. I wanted them to be better than me.”
― Sarah Caulfield, Harmonious Hearts 2016 - Stories from the Young Author Challenge