“Paperwork is a magic in and of itself. It makes spouses out of strangers, makes homes out of houses.”
― 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
“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
“Let us speak, for a moment, on the matter of sisters. They can be enemies to fight or companions to lean upon: they can, at times, be strangers. They are not required to be friends, or to have involvement in one another's lives, or to be anything more than strangers united by the circumstances of their birth. Still, there is a magic in the word "sister," a magic which speaks of shared roots and hence shared branches, of a certain ease that is always to be pursued, if not always to be found.”
― 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
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