Amy Sutherland

“If it’s bad news, I don’t want to know. I want to pause here, in this moment, the moment before I know.”
― Emma Pattee, Tilt: A Novel

“Leave those dishes, I should have said. Come play with me in the forest, I should have said. The world will end tomorrow.”
― Emma Pattee, Tilt

“Do you know what I would do for you? I hope not. What would I not do, is the question. The universe careens around us and I shield your sleeping body with my arms, ready to proclaim to the heavens that I would kill for you: that I would kill others for you, that I would kill myself. I would even kill my husband if it came down to it. I swear every woman in my position feels the same.”
― Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

“But hasn’t it always been the other way around? Haven’t I always been flipping channels and browsing Pinterest while people died and struggled and starved?”
― Emma Pattee, Tilt: A Novel