Paulina

“I guess children believe whatever they want to believe. Perhaps adults do too.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“the ghosts in the house are ours, and I just want to be with them.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“That was sort of our family portrait. It's not the kind of thing you think you would miss. Maybe you don't even notice it at all those thousands of times, sitting between your mum and dad on the big green couch with your brother on the carpet getting in the way of the telly. Maybe you don't even notice that.

But you notice it when he isn't there anymore. You notice so many places where he isn't, and you hear so many of the things he doesn't say.

I do.

I hear them all the time.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse