Lauren Wolk, Wolf Hollow
7 quotes
"Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake."
"All around us, birds woke up the sky."
"I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the other business that occupied my brain, but I wouldn't unlid those boxes until I was ready to hear [his] stories again as they wanted to be heard."
"Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt."
"But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them."
"I slept so long and hard that when my mother woke me the next morning I was a stranger to myself."
"And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret."