Stephanie

“They had not intended to bite him, but they decided that this man needed to learn that sometimes a little fear can help keep men alive too.”
― Maisy Card, These Ghosts are Family

“My mother has found being alone a new beginning. Her house is tidy. She eats what she wants, when she wants: nothing for a day and then a dressed crab at eleven at night, or a bowl of frozen peas, uncooked, which she eats like peanuts for breakfast. I admire the singleness that she has embraced since Dad died. I think I could aspire to that, but without having to be widowed first. Sometimes, though, it would be nice to fuck and to be fucked.”
― Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

“It is just like my mother to tell me about a ghost in the house in which I am staying, alone, and then to tell me that there’s absolutely nothing to worry about. That is exactly her game.”
― Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock