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1 " Until it has scared you with its endlessness, sky is just sky. "
― Jenny Hubbard , Paper Covers Rock
2 " It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself. "
3 " You are on my side," she says."What side is that?" I ask."The winning side," she says, and smiles. "The team of the artists.""Who are we playing?""The barbarians," she says. "We are always playing them. "
4 " She touches her wrist where her watch used to be, her fingers lost without time to hold on to. "
5 " Read to your heart's content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content. "
6 " Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and the left, the hemispheres of reason and imagination. She discovered as a child that a closed book is a darkness anyone can enter, not a cary darkness like a basement or a storm, but a comforting one that wrapped her up neatly inside a world she could control. "
7 " You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity. "
8 " Because God didn't write the Bible. Men did, probably uneducated ones. "
― Jenny Hubbard , And We Stay
9 " What I carry in my backpack down to the river, I carry not knowing that in less than an hour Thomas Broughton will be dead. That is not a knowledge I carry yet, but I will carry it soon - the knowledge of my darkest self - and I will carry it forever. "
10 " Read to your heart’s content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content. "
11 " Pall-- Oh, yes, she could feel it/even though the bullet/had never stabbed her skin./ The bright white heat/ burned at her core/ where two lives/ beat, and if he'd aimed/ there and pulled the trigger,/red would have crested/ like a broken dam/ over her hands/ as her last word rushed/ up to her throat-- Paul-- / a sound that took no time and also lifetimes. "
12 " Honor is truth. Truth has many meanings, but it first means that you have to be true to yourself. It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself. "
― Jenny Hubbard
13 " If God made us in his image, then maybe we have a right to play God when we can't find Him anymore. "
14 " It does not have to define who Emily is, was, or will be. "
15 " Even English-teacher bookworms need friends and bars. "
16 " Emily is beginning to understand something about girls: when big things have been swept with no warning right out from under their feet, they have to get a little back just to keep themselves tethered. "
17 " a closed book is a darkness anyone can enter, not a cary darkness like a basement or a storm, but a comforting one that wrapped her up neatly inside a world she could control. "
18 " Never LandShe rocks herself to sleep,rocks herself awake, rocksuntil she is one with a skydeep as midnight. The ground is not hers-never was-and the only light, the only light there is,hums a high songfrom the backside of stars. Here in the dark, yes, hereis the cradle. "
19 " Do you have any idea how hard a story is to write? My brain is jumpy, and my heart doesn't know where to live. Is Male is such an imperfect narrator, but he will try to finish his tale. "
20 " Writing is about making choices, Miss Dovecott says. One word or phrase or title over another. So many options that they're almost overwhelming. Which is why it is sometimes so easy to grab the cliché, to reach out to what is familiar. But don't. Because metaphor is all about the comparison of two unfamiliar, unlike things. "
