Quotes from Sam Reaves

The reader is the final arbiter.

The reader is the final arbiter.

he was one of those men whose views were as unshakable as they were unreflective.

everybody was afraid and that the trick was to learn to function with fear.

Here were Winnie the Pooh, The Wind in the Willows, A Wrinkle in Time, The Outsiders, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Gone with the Wind, Wuthering Heights. And over here Anne of Green Gables, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pride and Prejudice, Island of the Blue Dolphins.

you, Aunt Helga? Are you in hell?" Helga appeared to consider the question seriously, but when her answer came it was with a dismissive gesture. "Oh, no, honey. I'm all right. I'd rather still be at home, but then I'd be completely dependent on people who have their own lives to lead, and that's not very agreeable, either. I don't like it, but I can't say I don't belong here. It's just another thing to make the best of.

neglected and betrayed you, but the animal inside you needed the animal inside them. If only, Rachel thought, you could be content with the animal part. Sometimes it was a burden to be human.

They traded one of those looks only two people who have grown up together can trade, long and candid, and Rachel found herself hurting for him.

There's nothing wrong with your judgment. Sometimes people let you down, that's all. And it sucks, big time. But there's a lot of other people out there. You put it behind you and go find somebody else.

The hallways were starkly illuminated by fluorescent tubes and populated by shambling disheveled ancients supporting themselves on walkers, harried by attendants dressed like hospital personnel but with the dead-eyed stares of prison warders.

souvenir tablecloths bearing images of the Acropolis,