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“It isn’t often you forget the shape of your cage.”

“He and Father Travis were chopping themselves calm, miles apart, stacking heartache.”

“We’re here to make magic with words.”

“…but what a pleasure it was to hold the weight of an entire finished story in his hands.”

“I named them for what they were. I called them Legion.”

“Life has meaning because it ends.”

“There is no right course. We just do what we can. And after a while, the choices we make are all in conversation with the ones we made before.”

“All things have a purpose.
Not every purpose is good.”

“A story is a powerful thing…

…sometimes we tell ourselves
the most beautiful lies
just to survive the terrible things
that we are living through.”

It’s something small, but I think the smaller things can be just as important.

A person is more than where they come from.

“…a house too long without people became a little feral.”

All knots can be united with a few deaths, or ten thousand. (204)

How I love to have no armor here. (171)

“She knew that people enjoyed sex. She always thought that it was an indulgence. She hadn’t known it was a hunger.”

“In the dark, it’s easier to start thinking that evil is stronger than it is.”

You are right. I am foolish. I was born for a cage after all, convent or house, what else is there?

OMg! This whole section! You are a verb….the geeky grammar person in me is in love with this description!

By verbally identifying an object, by giving it a name, we alter it, and at the same time, we prevent it from changing.

I had to stop a minute because I am sick over Lisa. Fair told Sasha he wouldn’t ask her to do the impossible, but he certainly asked it of Lisa. And perhaps it is true that what he asked her to do was not IMpossible, it is certainly abhorrent.

The sea had time and patience enough for two.

We value the briefest moments most because they are the ones that define us. A first kiss. A sudden death. An accident. A marriage proposal. A high.

“There is such peril in loving things at all. And he feels sort of proud, in fact, that he just keeps on doing it.”

“But here is the nature of life, that we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”

It’s too long for me to quote, but 44% into Wild, Dark Shore, Dominic‘s little aside? Oh my heart.

“ Protecting a thing is just an excuse to control it.”

“Find a bad guy, and if you can’t, make one up.”

“By the time I make it back to my gang, four broken doves are at my tail.”

I don’t know why tears just sprang to my eyes when I read that line, but I know it doesn’t bode well for the games.

Ah…the breath he didn’t know he was holding! I needed that for my book club prompt!!

Well…boo. I can’t get to the website for the book despite trying to go at it several different ways- so if you have a link, please shoot it to me! Www.emilynash.com doesn’t load, soooo…this will be a DNF for me until I can be able to experience it all.

And I loved Skeleton Creek!