J.G. Kelly > Quotes

“and the British were at the gates of Paris. People”
― J.G. Kelly, The Silent Child: The gripping, heart-breaking and poignant historical novel set during WWII

“When he was a child he’d often wake at home without a clear notion of where he was, or even who he was, and he’d been able to suspend this exciting anonymity for several minutes by refusing to engage his consciousness. He was able to live in the world of the possible – undefined, but limitless, floating without the tiresome ballast provided by the real world; the sandbags of fact, such as a name, an address, a past, a routine.”
― J.G. Kelly, The Silent Child: The gripping, heart-breaking and poignant historical novel set during WWII