Ann Hite > Quotes

“My books nourish my soul. When I open a cover and begin to read, I go to new places, to worlds I never knew existed. I time travel into the past and up into the distant future”
― Ann Hite, The Storycatcher

“Her words turned my heart to ice and something broke inside me. Something cold and hard. I yanked my arm back, turned, and walked out the door into the night. It was like my life was being told in a different way, a way not intended”
― Ann Hite, The Storycatcher

“When he died...part of her soul faded away. One day she was something else to look at in full bloom, and the next she was dropping one beautiful petal at a time until all her heart was gone like a bunch of spent tulips.”
― Ann Hite, Ghost on Black Mountain

“Mama-when she was younger-said a woman on the run ought to keep a lookout over her shoulder. She also said a girl shouldn't get so big for her pants that she outgrew her history. But some ancestral memories deserved to be abandoned.”
― Ann Hite, Going To The Water

“I swallowed the rank taste of hate in my mouth.”
― Ann Hite, Ghost on Black Mountain

“I looked into his crystal-clear blue eyes that reminded me of a winter sky. Those eyes made me see life his way in an instant.”
― ann hite, Ghost on Black Mountain