Selena’s Reviews > Letters from Skye > Status Update

".. I still think it would have been splendid if she had fallen in love with the Mouse King, checked jacket and all.."

"I ask you, Davey, what is a well-published poet doing scrambling onto a thatched roof in the dead of winter, a length of heather rope between her teeth?"

"I admit, I've been pulling out all of your old letters and rereading them, sometimes falling asleep covered in your words.."

"..Well, if you can't leave Lottie as a mouse, what could you do to her? I mean aside from having her be caught by Mrs. Owl and made into mouse mousse.. Maybe she falls in love with the Mouse King? I don't know for certain, but someone in a gold velvet robe and miniature shoes has to be quite eye-catching."

"The first volume of my life is out if print" she's fond of saying

"He has a big walrus mustache, and when he laughs, he doesn't make a sound. You only know because the tips of his mustache twitch. There he sat, sniffing, mustache twitching, saying things like 'Ridiculous' and 'No career in that.'"

"..I've kept a part of myself locked away, always. A part of me that started scratching at the wall the day this other war started, that started howling to get out right now, the day you ran off to meet your soldier. I should have told you, should've taught you to steel your heart. Taught you that a letter isn't always just a letter. Words in the page can drench the soul. If only you knew."