“It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened.”
― Willful Creatures
― Willful Creatures
“Happiness can be frightening when one is not accustomed to the sensation.”
― The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
― The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
“You want to defend those you love, even if the ones you love aren't very good all the time. And sometimes they're even downright awful.”
― Rabbit Cake
― Rabbit Cake
“The thing is, I don't want to end up like Ma and Da. In a house with books and dust and all the love gone out of it.”
― Mathilda Savitch
― Mathilda Savitch
“I’d figured out by now that death never makes sense, no matter how someone dies: murder, accident, old age, cancer, suicide, you’re never ready to lose someone you love. I decided death will always feel unexplained; we will never be ready for it, and you just have to do the best you can with what you have left.”
― Rabbit Cake
― Rabbit Cake
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