Kathleen Korp

“When one is young, he thought, one thinks that one will never know oneself. But the knowledge comes later; if not all, then some. An important amount.”
― Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist

“And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Middey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death. A distraction dressed as a blessing: but dressed so well, and so truly, that it became a blessing. Or maybe it was the other way around: a blessing first, before a distraction. ...But she did not think any more about it because at her back, suddenly, the child woke from her nap, and she rose at once to go to her. (p. 124)”
― Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist

“...it is sad, of course, to forget.
But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten.
To remember when no one else does.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Things might get very bad, things might be worse than she ever imagined, but the stars existed, and that was something.”
― Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist