“I stood by the fire, everyone around me so cheerful, and thought what an odd creature I am – even I know that. Too much space and I’m frightened, too little and I’m frightened. There is indeed no comfortable place for me – I am too near the fire or too far away. Behind”
― Falling Angels
― Falling Angels
“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
“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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