Em Carr

“There aren’t very many people in this world who really know how to look. Usually one glance is enough to register that the grass is green and the sky is blue and so on. They can tell you if the sun is shining or if it looks like rain, but that’s about all. It’s such a pity, for there is texture to everything we see, and everything we do and hear. That’s what I want today’s lesson to be about. I want you to start noticing things. Once you get used to it you’ll never be able to stop. It’s the best game in the world.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“After my parents left us with Nan and Pop, it took weeks for me to stop feeling jumpy, to get used to living with two people who actually seemed to love each other.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“No precaution could have been more obvious than our refraining from communication with him that day; yet this again increased my restlessness.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Forgive her, if you can," I say. "Remember that fate is never what we think it will be. Your mother-my mother-we can never understand their torments. Their hurts. We may suffer the consequences of their mistakes and their sins, but we should not carry them on our hearts. We don't deserve that.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates