“Tell me pleasant lies, and I will believe them before I throw them away.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, quote from The Creeper Man
“At least with my father, the danger was out in the open. I knew what to expect. But Auntie Cath is a different kind of dark altogether.
The worst kind.
The kind made from love.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, quote from The Creeper Man
“Things can stay safe for long
they can pretend to fit
but then you hear Discord's song
and things crack bit by bit.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, quote from The Creeper Man
“We have no right to children if despair is all we bring with us.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, quote from The Creeper Man
“Rotting in your skin
rotting in your mind
you are rotting in this house
in this house you'll die.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, quote from The Creeper Man
“You're going to destroy me," I whisper.
And then he is shaking even more, and I realize it's because he is crying. Not just crying, but the kind of bone-deep crying that only comes from grief. From the deepest sorrow. The kind of crying that tears deep down into the soul from some wound that time can never touch.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, quote from The Creeper Man
“I don’t say anything because he’s got fire inside him for sure, and fire burns.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, quote from The Creeper Man
“I slump against the banister. "I don't understand. I'm so tired."
Cath is fading away again, her last look one of pity. Sympathy. Understanding.
"The mad always are," she says.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, quote from The Creeper Man
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“The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?”
― Brom, quote from The Child Thief
“But if you have so much fun, then why don't you get together more than once a month?'
She looked at me like a wise old owl and winked. 'Do something too often and it stops being special.”
― Beth Hoffman, quote from Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
“I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.”
― Jonathan Lethem, quote from Motherless Brooklyn
“Sometimes I felt like I would go insane not having the answers to such simple questions. Of course, it was always hardest during the night, when the darkness stole away any signs of hope.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from The Samurai's Garden
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, quote from The Essential Rumi
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