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The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1) QUOTES

The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1) QUOTES

1 " (She) didn't believe in resilience. She believed in imagination. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

2 " Shame was a peculiar beast, Naomi knew. She suspected everyone had it: the dragon they wanted to slay. But for her it was different. Naomi wanted to bathe in it, to stand under its waterfall and come out blessed. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

3 " But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true piece is when you curl around one little piece of something. One little fern. One little frond. One person to love. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

4 " No matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

5 " America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

6 " Snow girl was glad she had left her own feelings behind. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

7 " She stopped by an empty field, the soil abandoned, gone to mustard weed and grass. Lush bundles of crimson clover lined the fence. At the far end was a cluster of trees. As always, her eyes sought movement at the edge of the woods. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

8 " But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true peace is when you curl around one little piece of something. One little fern. One little frond. One person to love. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

9 " The land beyond rose into dizzying mountains. Far across the way a frozen waterfall resembled a charging lion. The trees were shrouded in white, a vision of the heavens. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

10 " Outside a pale dawn threaded the sky with silver. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

11 " In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

12 " A farm without stock, a home without children. The world here was dying. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

13 " Naomi felt very small, hiking through this endless dark forest. Fresh snow dusted the ground. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

14 " Everyone was harmless until you knew better. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

15 " Are the stories we tell ourselves true or based on what we dream them to be? "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

16 " guess?” Naomi sank into a chair. “Jerome,” she "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

17 " Not everyone likes a ceiling,” her mommy said. “Some of us like the sky. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

18 " Her entire life she had been running from terrifying shadows she could no longer see—and in escape she ran straight into life. In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. Like a leaf that drank from the morning dew, you didn’t question the morning sunrise or the sweet taste on your mouth. You just drank. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

19 " Stop thinking that you have to know everything to understand it. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)

20 " Each child she found was a molecule, a part of herself still remaining in the scary world she had left behind. "

― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)