mlady_rebecca

“Yes,” Mom said. “People may want to kill themselves. But no one wants to be depressed, or in pain, or lonely, or hurt.”
― Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

“It worked because, lo and behold, she suddenly remembered her good friend Ariel mentioning she’d seen a strange guy hanging around in the neighborhood.”

“I’m shocked and stunned. What does lo mean? I get the behold, but what is lo and why is it always handing with behold?”

“Behold must like it because it always lets lo come first.”
― J.D. Robb, Faithless in Death

“The fear of the Time Out, Dallas. It can’t be overstated.”
― J.D. Robb, Faithless in Death

“The other thing I realized by the end of the evening was that humans and the Others did have one thing in common—we both had a love for, and fascination with, stories. I learned that every form of terra indigene had its own teaching stories as well as stories that were the repository of their history and connection to the world. And they all had stories that were told for the fun of it.”
― Anne Bishop, Lake Silence