Shawndree Quotes

#1. I watch the back of Abel's head for a moment before opening the door. Coming to him was the right thing to do, it always was. Abel is my other half. If ever there was someone to release me of a weak heart, it would be him.

Celia Mcmahon

#2. I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.

Patrick Ness

#3. ...it would have been better to have forced herself to see more of her parents in the critical years of her own parenthood, so as to better understand her kids' response to her.

Jonathan Franzen

#4. On one hand, you couldn't count on anything; on the other, on any given day, change was vanishingly unlikely.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#5. Like a moth, Rene was attracted to the flame of fame

James D. Bradley

#6. So, let me get this straight," he said to me. "You save my ass and you're a loser. I stick up for you because of it and I'm a hero. How does that work?"
"I don't know. But it's so sweet.

Kelley Armstrong

#7. But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it ...

Alison Lurie

#8. And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

Tom Hayden