“Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.”
Glenda Millard“..so Grandpa turned the rusty latchkey of his magnificent remembery and set free a symphony of stories”
Glenda Millard, The Duck and the Darklings“I couldn't remember anyone hugging me like that before.”
Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark“... and all we knew about her that we didn't know the night before was that she had eyes like pansies and skin like the moon.”
Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark“Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.”
Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark“We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They were like people without hearts; raspberry tarts without the jam.”
Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark“Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.”
Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark“I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...”
Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark“Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.”
Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark“She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she'd rush away again.”
Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark“... I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.”
Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark