Cathy

“She was a shadow. She was the cruel, howling thing that could be heard during a full moon. She was the monster who crept into other children's dreams. But this is how monsters are made: from innocent things.”
― Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places

“The mind was so thin, barely a spiderweb, with all its fine thoughts, aspirations, and beliefs in its own importance. Watch how easily it unravels, evaporates under the first lick of pain.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“It is not against men that we fling our bombs, what do we know of men in this moment when Death is hunting us down?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Because,' explained Mary Rommely simply, 'the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.”
― Betty Smith