Michaela Thompson > Quotes

“Lily wondered if Jesus’s cause suffered more because of his enemies or his helpers.”
― Michaela Thompson, Hurricane Season

“you Isabel?”
― Michaela Thompson, Riptide

“felt but not seen, present but not acknowledged. It can exist in pauses and silences, inhabit a gesture or an expression, liquefy in a tear. So a ghost can pervade and control.”
― Michaela Thompson, A Temporary Ghost

“She shrugged. “I shoved him out the window,” she said with a trace of surprise. “I shoved him and out he went, just like that. He didn’t make a sound as he went down, and I heard him bounce off the garbage cans below.”
― Michaela Thompson, Paper Phoenix

“he nodded and pointed up a staircase just inside the door. The stairs were dark and dusty, no hint reaching them of the bright sun outside. A door at the top was open and a number of people— reporters, I assumed— were milling around in a small living room. A sofa and two chairs,”
― Michaela Thompson, Magic Mirror

“of”
― Michaela Thompson, Magic Mirror

“dressed for success, but success at what remained a question.”
― Michaela Thompson, A Temporary Ghost

“walked”
― Michaela Thompson, Paper Phoenix

“in Hurricane Season, and still spends a significant amount of time there. She has worked as a newspaper reporter and a freelance journalist, and has contributed mystery short stories to a number of anthologies. She and her husband,”
― Michaela Thompson, Paper Phoenix

“The smell of coffee drifted from the dining room on her left, while across the entry hall the living room was full of voices and smoke. “Lot of people here already?” “A right smart of ’em,” said Marinda. “Peach”
― Michaela Thompson, Hurricane Season

“Why he attended these gatherings I don’t know, unless he was in search of stories.”
― Michaela Thompson, Paper Phoenix

“The trip was to Atlanta. A Bay City majorette was entered in a prestigious baton-twirling competition there, and I was scheduled to go with her and write up her experiences. However, two days before I was supposed to leave I came down with a horrible strep throat and Loretta got to go instead. While she was there Loretta went to a Coke party for the twirlers and met a wealthy businessman named Wendell Walker, who was there representing one of the competition’s sponsors. You guessed it.”
― Michaela Thompson, The Grand Tour: Four International Mysteries

“discovered older women. In previous times, we females had marked the passing years in relative tranquility. Now, we were in ferment. At the age of forty-four,”
― Michaela Thompson, Paper Phoenix

“Larry Hawkins, 35, editor-publisher of the People’s Times, a weekly newspaper devoted to local politics, was found dead this morning in an alley outside the Times offices at 1140 Cleveland Street, a police spokesman said. Hawkins, an apparent suicide, had fallen from his office window on the building’s seventh floor. A note was found, the spokesman said. Hawkins, self-styled “gadfly” of the City’s political establishment, was a well-known local figure. The People’s Times began publication three years ago. Hawkins is survived by his wife, Susanna, and two sons.”
― Michaela Thompson, Paper Phoenix

“sand. The”
― Michaela Thompson, Riptide

“If you decide not to be ordinary, extraordinary things are more likely to happen to you.”
― Michaela Thompson, Magic Mirror

“Season, and still spends a significant amount of time there. She has worked as a newspaper reporter and a freelance journalist, and has contributed mystery short”
― Michaela Thompson, Paper Phoenix

“If you decide not to be ordinary, extraordinary things are more likely to happen to you. Some of them may be hideous. That’s why so few people risk it.”
― Michaela Thompson, Magic Mirror

“When each minute of consciousness is a burden, an extra forty-five of them constitutes an almost insurmountable tragedy.”
― Michaela Thompson, Paper Phoenix