Jo Shaffer

“All reading, in short, is telepathy and all reading is time travel. It connects us to everyone and everywhere and every time and every imagined dream.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“Just before the picture, the wind blew a strand of Rose’s long hair so that it wrapped over my shoulder, and I thought maybe that was the sign I’d been waiting for. Two people, side by side, looking straight ahead. I think C. S. Lewis was onto something. We don’t have music to reveal the direction of our lives, of course, but if we did, I’m pretty sure mine would have soared just then.”
― Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

“It’s almost painful, the way little children just trustingly hold out their hearts for you to look at—the way they haven’t learned yet how to conceal what matters to them, even if it’s just chewing gum or a plush dolphin or plastic binoculars.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can’t cut something with it without cutting yourself.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game