About a Girl Quotes

“I stroked his long, appreciative back, all the way to the tip of his striped tail, and thought how frustrating it was that we can take such liberties with animals, but not with people. I wanted to stroke her head -this girl I secretly knew was called Flynn.”
― Joanne Horniman, About a Girl

“When I was with her, my skin sighed that the center of the world was precisely here.”
― Joanne Horniman, About a Girl

“She took great pains, and it irritated and tortured her, this getting a song right. In the end, no one might be aware of the time she had taken in creating in, but she would know – and she would know if she was pleased with what she had made. And perhaps this was the most important thing I got from Flynn, this knowledge that a song, or anything, is not a small thing for the person making it.”
― Joanne Horniman, About a Girl