Rebecca McNutt, Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog City Novel
10 quotes
"Don’t you think it’s better to continue reading than to just close the book?"
"Your imaginary friend isn’t the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don’t seem to have any real friends."
"There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She’d wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naïve at times, she wasn’t stupid."
"Typical Pollution, they’re always living in the wrong place at the wrong time."
"Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses."
"Why do they lie?” she asked herself aloud. “They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse."
"Mearth appeared angry and disappointed briefly, but then she just gazed at the ground. “…It must be horrible, feeling all alone, is it?” she asked.“Oh, not really,” said Alecto, his eyes lifeless, his voice listless. “I’m going to be forgotten by someone who I can’t forget, though. That will be terrible… but maybe it’s better if she does forget me altogether."
"I used to think to myself that I was the last kind of person who should have a guardian angel, but then I realized that maybe my type of person is the kind who angels come to first."
"We get along like a house on fire these days."
"Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes."