Emma Kennedy > Quotes

“Most grown-ups are never happier than when they have someone to look down on, and the Cooper Island Farsiders couldn't have been more delighted that they had the Cooper Lowsiders to despise. As long as the Farsiders had their immediate neighbors to oppress, they were saved the exacting inconvenience of recognizing their own shortcomings.”
― Emma Kennedy, The Case of the Frozen Hearts

“We spend so much time with out parents, Rachel thought, it's a shame we don't get to know them.”
― Emma Kennedy, The Things We Left Unsaid

“He was extremely thin and was wearing nothing but a pair of rancid-looking grey shorts and a pair of canvas plimsolls which had lost their laces. His face was a concertina of brown, weathered lines, his hair a crow’s nest of mess and his mouth seemed to be packed out with not just his own teeth but a few extra from who knows where that jutted out at random angles. If ever there was a physical breed standard for a mad man, he was it.”
― Emma Kennedy, The Tent, the Bucket and Me

“Dead bodies were grey and old. They had sunken cheeks, their hair was thin, they had a sweet, sickly smell to them, a sort of gentle rotting. Dead bodies weren’t supposed to be young, full of mischief, brimful with larks. The order of things was broken. Broken.”
― Emma Kennedy, Shoes for Anthony

“they were raw with grief and disappointment, and they had nothing to scratch up against except each other.”
― Emma Kennedy, The Things We Left Unsaid

“It's so easy to be a pale imitation of everyone else, but to be yourself, that's the trick.”
― Emma Kennedy, The Things We Left Unsaid