Lisa Preston > Quotes

“Different ideas will capture my imagination and ask if they can be in a story. Sometimes they fit together and sometimes they don't. One notion leads to another and I might write pages that will have to go away later, but I'm sketching, getting to know a character, how he or she speaks or lives, so I just let it flow. Things start to click. I don't outline before starting, nor do I write one chapter at a time or even in chronological order. If I'm thinking about a scene, conversation, or event that will come later, I page down and write away.”
― Lisa Preston

“How many people did nothing? How many times would it have mattered? How often might a life be saved if people made an effort and took action? If they got involved whenever there was a question, a hint of trouble.”
― Lisa Preston, Orchids and Stone

“The unsettling specter of Lindsay, out here in the woods in an ancient, crummy trailer, tending a little orchard, felt somehow morally suspect. Because she survived? Because”
― Lisa Preston, Orchids and Stone

“The Hawai‘ian version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” choked her up.”
― Lisa Preston, Orchids and Stone

“do not want to be less than I can be. I want to be as kind as I can be, as compassionate as I can be. I want to engage all the way.”
― Lisa Preston, Orchids and Stone

“They’d had her body all day, confirming what they suspected as soon as some hikers’ dogs pawed at the shallow grave where her naked corpse rotted as fodder for the earth. And then, the”
― Lisa Preston, Orchids and Stone