14 Quotes by Beth Gutcheon

In marriage if one partner stays small and quiet in one area of the universe of two, the other may (or must) expand to fill the void.

Sacrifice is a necessary response to evil. You can only shame evil by showing them honor.

I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

I wanted this day, the perfect buttery sun like peach ice cream, the speed, the satin leather of the car seat, the fair. Forbidden fruit, a day like no other.

Did you know that the origin of the word gossip in English is "god-sibling"? It's the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It's talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people you want to protect.

Damned no matter what you do. Why do people think knowing secrets is fun?

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.