Caroline Archer

“How is it possible, I wondered, that you could set your watch by the trajectory of a comet and the path of the earth through its tail? Like the cogs of a perpetual clock, going round and round forever. It made me feel better about life on earth, the reassuring order of things: summer, autumn, winter, spring; birth, growth, death.”
― Meg Rossoff

“When I think back on that summer it's always with a sense of having lost something fragile and fleeting, something I can't quite name. We still go to the beach and always have good times, but it's never quite the same.”
― Meg Rossoff

“And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe