Chloe

“She resented the way she was listening out for him, her attention poised, holding its breath, for the creak of the door or a floorboard. Wanting it, dreading it.”
― Ian McEwan, The Children Act

“But the crowded recent past can be difficult to recall.”
― Ian McEwan, The Children Act

“Instead I watched our mother obsessively for signs of breakage.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it.”
― Ali Smith, There but for the