Meghan Bee

“Everything in life is a rehearsal for loss.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“Sometimes, with problems you do nothing and they go away. Other times it is the opposite”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“People have sex with strangers. People marry strangers. People spend half a century in bed together and wind up strangers at the end. Nicholas knows all this; he has cleaned house after his dead parents and grandparents, made all the terrible discoveries that only death affords. How long does it take to know anyone? Five minutes, and done. Nothing can move you off a first impression. That person in your life's passenger seat? Always a hitchhiker to be dropped off just down the road. p199”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Everything was gentle, inside me and out. Only children can feel that kind of safety; I know that now.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street