Lilly Blasko

“It's incredible," she says, "how much damage everyone does to everybody else.”
― Nina LaCour, The Disenchantments

“Your mind has a way of not letting you forget things you wish you could. Especially with people. Like, you'll always try your best to forget things that people say to you or about you, but you always remember. And you'll try to forget things you've seen that no one should see, but you just can't do it. And when you try to forget someone's face, you can't get it out of your head.”
― John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Fulton Dumas, do you know where Gabriel Witter is?"
"No," he said, his expression changing suddenly from surprised embarrassment to sadness.
"Are you sure?" Lucas asked.
"Why would I know where he is?"
"I don't know, Fulton. Why do you need a thousand stuffed bears? Have you seen Gabriel Witter?”
― John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back