Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?
It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.
Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.
I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.
Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
We writers are resilient souls.
Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.
What happened?” she breathed, staring at me. “I got hit in the face with a pie,” I said. Mags stopped, blinking. “You got. . . hit in the face with a pie,” she repeated. “I. . . what? I’m sorry, but I’ve been in charge of this Library for a long time. I’ve seen a lot of really ridiculous things. I lived in Wales. And there is no way being hit with a pie should have turned you human. ” “It was a really evil pie,” I said.