Joe

“She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.”
― Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels

“But this dagger – this was her first. Her favorite. The same one that had sliced off the boy’s toe on the beach and sent it rolling through the sand.”
― Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels

“It had to be the hardest thing, even if he’d never known it himself – to accept that the ones you loved would find their own way home.”
― Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels

“Character is what we are in the dark”
― Lee K. Abbott