Callan

“When she stands in its ribcage, she recalls how she had once placed her hands on the outside of its body, and now she is inside its body, in the space created by its absent life. When she looks up, she sees the bones arching over her head against the vast starry sky like roof beams, like the skeletal beginnings of a strange new home. Something she has made from what was washed up, unwanted; something created from what was left to her.”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

“Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
― Miriam Adeney

“Their most-loved books have been read so many times, they only have to look at the covers to know how it feels to be enclosed within them.”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre