Sleeping with the sun Quotes

“Shush – it’s silent time again.”

“A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.”

“On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harder to spot and more faded, but it was there if you looked, as many things were.”

“He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.”

“I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.”

“Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.”

“Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.”

“Prayer is better than pills.”

“Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving her spells – an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed.”