“If you hear a voice within say you cannot do something, then by all means, do that thing, and that voice will be silenced.”
― The Secret Life of Sunflowers
― The Secret Life of Sunflowers
“Mysteries in books were the best kind. The real world was absolutely full of boring mysteries, questions that never got answered and lost things that never got found. That wasn't allowed, in books. In books, mysteries were always interesting and exciting, packed with daring and danger, and in the end, the good guys found the clues and the bad guys got their comeuppance. Best of all, nothing was ever lost forever. If something mattered enough for the author to write it down, it would always come back before the last page was turned. It would always come back.”
― In an Absent Dream
― In an Absent Dream
“Enjoy yourself. There are many good things in the world, and each of them happens for the first time only once, and never again.”
― In an Absent Dream
― In an Absent Dream
“She was Katherine, she was the teacher's pet, and when she grew up, she was going to be a librarian, because she couldn't imagine knowing there was a job that was all about books and not wanting to do it.”
― In an Absent Dream
― In an Absent Dream
“A Jack-o'-lantern might be beautiful, but it was still something that had been cut open and hollowed out because someone wanted it to suit their idea of what a pumpkin ought to be. It wasn't its own self anymore”
― Where the Drowned Girls Go
― Where the Drowned Girls Go
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