Jill Schneider

“But the one benefit of having a dead mother is the ability to turn her into an unwavering ally, whether she would have been one or not.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Really, religion is so strange—virgin births, the devil disguised as a snake, bread turning into flesh—if you believe all that you can believe anything. And maybe that’s the attraction.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“but how much better would he be if he stopped thinking and started just being? Started listening, smelling, feeling?”
― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder

“vanilla tears were making their way down the rippled orange cone on to the little girl’s fingers.”
― Meera Syal, The House of Hidden Mothers: A Novel