Meg Dunley

“Stupid people should never read books.”
― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle

“But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the messengers between this world and the other worlds, Pilar had said. Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

“When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.”
― Anton Chekhov