Deeann McQueen

“The reader needs to feel involved in the sense making of a story, or they're not involved in the book. A book is a negotiation between what a reader wants to see and what the writer wants to show. Songs must satisfy and resist in a similar way.”
― Justin Tussing, Vexation Lullaby

“prayed that she would have peace.
That was all he asked for. That was all he had ever asked for.”
― Ann Patchett, [Run] [By: Patchett, Ann] [September, 2007]

“It looked like someone's grandmothers house, that it might smell like sugar cookies and Rose Milk lotion inside.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

“I'm not generally in a hurry. I lost my hurry a long time ago. Why rush? Where do I need to get so fast? Just the opposite, my everyday life centres around small actions aimed at helping pass the time, making it disappear into a series of unimportant motions completed without the slightest hint of urgency.”
― Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck