Shilo

“The one big difference between John and me, besides the fact that he’s a boy and I’m a girl, is I have compassion.”
― Paul Zindel, The Pigman

“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth century, it was easy to think of murder that way.”
― Judith Flanders, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

“Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth;”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage