Anna Quinn > Quotes

“Everyone has their own way of being brave.”
― Anna Quinn, The Night Child

“She closes her eyes and breathes in rhythm with the ebb and flow of the ocean. Her grandfather told her once, as they sat on the shore of Galway Bay, that on the ebb, the waves gathered up secrets and carried them away, and on the flow, the secrets spilled into new places until they were heard. She'd asked him if he'd heard any secrets, but he'd only put his finger on her lips and said, "Listen.”
― Anna Quinn, The Night Child

“...ultimately, you are the one who will save you. Not me. You. You'll have to work hard.”
― Anna Quinn, The Night Child: A Novel

“Fiona presses hard into Nora, two pieces fitting together like small countries in a private continent.”
― Anna Quinn, The Night Child: A Novel

“They're so different, loneliness and solitude, one is something missing, the other something found.”
― Anna Quinn

“...in a voice flat as a granite slab.”
― Anna Quinn, The Night Child: A Novel

“Writing is about you, the writer—your heart, your body, your mind. It's about how you carry grief and joy and pain and fear and hesitations and love. In a world that so often feels unsteady and unkind, writing is a way of holding on—a lantern you carry, a small, stubborn act of hope that says: I was here and this is what I saw, this is what I heard, this is what I touched, this is what I felt.”
― Anna Quinn