Gina Rose

“You could just hold them, couldn’t you? You could sit close to them, nestle into them so you could hear the machine of them churning away. You could press your ear against that person’s back, listening to the rhythm of them, knowing that you were both made of the same exact stuff. You could do things like that.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“Either you’re a falconer or you’re not. Either the birds come back to you or they fly away.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“It felt like all the blood in my body had swum up to my face , leaving the skin around my heart completely transparent.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.”
― David Adam, The Man Who Couldn't Stop