Quotes from Teresa Hill

Well, it's not like we've never made a mistake before," she said, then broke off at the look on his face. The hard, harsh, painful look. What did he think she meant? That it was all a mistake? Surely he didn't think that. She'd never wanted anyone but him, but she'd

like a good idea at all, once he thought of it. He did it anyway, winding

Blinking through the fading light and the gently falling snow, she thought for a moment the neighborhood they were driving through looked oddly familiar, though she was sure she'd never been here before.

protection.

Rachel, it's been nearly two hours." "Oh." She looked surprised. "I'm sorry.

What?" "To stop. That I didn't want to talk to him. That I wanted him to

shrunk until she was an inch high and was living inside one of her most prized possessions—a snow globe. It was so beautiful there, inside the big, old, magical-looking house, so warm, so welcoming. Emma could make it snow anytime she wanted with just a turn of her wrist, a bit of magic that never failed to delight Zach and

For a moment, Emma thought she might have stepped inside the pages of one of the Christmas books she read to Zach or that maybe she'd shrunk until

Basic psychological theory holds that we learn to trust, to feel safe — or not — when we're so young. It happens by the time we're two years old, and it depends on how well our basic needs are met. Whether people fed us, held us, comforted us, whether we were in a place where we felt safe.

boy. And somebody had to look out for them. "Tell me