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1 " Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive. "
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle , The Accident Season
2 " I am afraid of everybody else's secrets "
3 " There's this magical place,' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers... "
4 " I think that we all drown, in one way or another. "
5 " We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out. "
6 " Every first is a loss. "
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle , Spellbook of the Lost and Found
7 " In the ghost house in the last days of the accident season, we were never going to die. "
8 " Do no harm, but take no shit. "
9 " So let’s raise our glass to the accident season,To the river beneath us where we sink our souls,To the bruises and secrets, to the ghosts in the ceiling,One more drink for the watery road. "
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle
10 " That night, everybody lost something.Not everybody noticed. "
11 " The first page said only SPELLBOOK OF THE LOST AND FOUND, like a title.You cannot read on with a title like that. "
12 " The spell was on the very fist page: a calling for the lost to be found.We wanted our diaries found. So Holly suggested we try it.At first it was like a recipe: gathering moss and branches, raiding our cupboards for olive oil, slipping saints medals out of our nanas' wallets, rooting through the Christmas boxes in the attic, looking for silver string. It was silly and secret and made us feel like kids making mud pies. None of us took it seriously, not even Holly. "
13 " I’m just me.’’ ‘’Exactly,’’ the three gray ghosts said together. ‘’You don’t have to believe in who you are. You just are.’’ Together they grinned. "
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle , All the Bad Apples
14 " You cast spells every day. Your makeup is glamor magic. Hiding and highlighting. The clothes you pick out to make your legs look longer, your waist smaller. The red you wear for confidence; the black when you’re sad, the blue for clarity. Your favorite bra. Your lucky socks. The way you take an hour on your hair. It’s a ritual. It’s never just about clothes, or makeup, or perfectly messy buns. It’s about magic. "
15 " Three ciders deep, we swam between telling each other what our friendship meant, how much we loved each other, and comparing our taste in girls, despite me never having actually tasted one. "
16 " The problem is I've too many secrets and sometimes it's hard to keep up with your own lies. "
17 " If you’re not careful you can spend your whole life looking for what you’ve lost. "
18 " Be careful what you wish for; Not all lost things should be found. "
19 " There are no ghosts; only the dust in the light, our breath and the wind in the quiet, and the feeling that something, or a lot of somethings, are watching us. So maybe there are ghosts after all. "
20 " The tear in my world is getting bigger. Soon it'll blow the whole universe apart. "
