Tegan

“The lights whisper to her, loud and urgent, but the only voice she wants right now is her father's. It's a sound she'll never stop wanting.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

“She understands that it isn’t enough to have made it home. It isn’t enough to be alive after all these years. There is a deficit here that she is unable to reconcile. Life costs more than it gives.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

“The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.”
― Richard Price

“This is survival. This is how the vessel protects the mind, how the mind protects the heart, how the heart goes on forgetting that its calling is to be undefended, that being broken is part of being whole.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate