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1 " Children had the gift, the second sight, the sixth sense. Sometimes she wondered if most writers were really just children who’d never grown up. "
― Brian Freeman , Thief River Falls
2 " she was five years old and got her first library card, which to a bookish little girl was like a religious experience. "
3 " the face of severe trauma, the brain could conjure entire worlds that didn’t exist as a way of blocking out reality. Hallucinations of people and places. Delusions that the mind refused to give up. "
4 " confluence "
5 " Everyone who was gone was really still here. "
6 " How about we talk to the police together? You and me. There’s safety in numbers.” “I appreciate that, but I want to have some idea what’s going on and who’s involved before I do that. Until then, I think it’s better that no one know he’s here. "
7 " Hospitals scare him for some reason. "
8 " know you may think I’m crazy, but I really don’t know who we can trust. "
9 " Oh my God!” She hurried to him and swept him into her arms. Then she knelt on the floor in front of him and took his hands. “Where were you? Where did you go? I was so worried about you! "
10 " Writing is a mirror. If someone doesn’t like what you write, maybe it’s because they don’t like what they see in the reflection. "
11 " The closet door was closed. She always kept it closed. She’d been the one to open the door and find her father hanging from the rod by the loop of his belt. "
12 " He missed corded phones, which you could slam into their cradle. "
13 " In the face of severe trauma, the brain could conjure entire worlds that didn’t exist as a way of blocking out reality. Hallucinations of people and places. Delusions that the mind refused to give up. "
14 " It occurred to her that the best thing to do was to go back home and wait for the two deputies to return and hand the boy over to them. "
15 " She wants to tell him that life is about leaving, but that love is about memories. "
16 " even in the wake of terrible grief, life would go on. "
17 " Sometimes she wondered if most writers were really just children who’d never grown up. "
18 " It had been raining for hours, one of those endless fall rains that sucked all the color out of the world and turned your life into a black-and-white movie. "