Evie

“So what are you going to do with the pies?" Mum asked.
"My bike is getting fixed today it's kind of a payment, a little thank you."
"How very Dr Quinn Medicine Woman of you; sure they don't want to trade for eggs and chickens?" Dad laughed.”
― C.J. Duggan, The Boys of Summer

“Where is the absolution of religion now? Morality is not negotiable, Hensley. Unleashing a war machine in order to end a war? An absurd Olympics of semantic excuses. Ludicrous.”
― Hazel Woods, This Is How I'd Love You

“History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.”
― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle

“How do I pin down a memory like this? How do I know how to shelve it or categorize it? If felt impossible to me then, and it feels impossible to me now.

This is how I remember it:
The sky was so blue it broke my heart and the world smelled of something beginning. We landed in the leaves, which pillowed around us. There were leaves in her bright hair, framing her face. The empty branches held up the sky. I remember how they curled around her head like a crown as she leaned over me, catching my arms and telling me I was her prisoner, and oh, Sonja, what a willing prisoner I was!”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons