Merrilee Faber

“It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted, whether it was a chair or a table or a Welsh dresser.”
― Marcus Chown, We Need to Talk About Kelvin

“Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.”
― Jenny Colgan

“But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else.”
― Peter S. Beagle, Tamsin

“Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home.

Hannah, however, did the unforgivable.

She deserted me in our own backyard.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road