Quotes from Don't Breathe a Word

“Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“Lisa smiled. 'You know how sometimes, you catch the faintest hint of movement in the corner of your eye, then you blink and it's gone? That's them.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“Think of me. Remember me. Love me.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“Phoebe realized how very wrong she’d been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places she’d grown up in. In the dingy little apartments her mother rented, everything was out in the open. Their lives were dirty and squalid, but they didn’t pretend to be anything else. Here, things seemed so normal, so perfect, but it was all a deception.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“Think of me,' she said because it seemed like something a girl in a fairy tale might say. Think of me. Remember me. Love me. Turn me into a story you tell again and again. The sister who was good as gold and became a queen.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“Oh my God!” Sam said again, his voice shaking. I’ve given birth to something inhuman, Phoebe thought. A lamprey with row after row of teeth.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“Ain’t no point worrying about what’s been or what’s gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time."
An incantation.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

“Beautiful building,” Phoebe said. Sam nodded. “Classical Revival,” he said. It was yet another display of his seemingly unending knowledge that both made her proud and made her feel very small. Maybe if she had gone to college she would have learned about building styles and understand what Classical Revival meant. They could have intelligent discussions about things like rooflines and columns.”
― Jennifer McMahon, quote from Don't Breathe a Word

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