Amy Maikkula

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden

“I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....”
― Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden