18 Quotes by Carrie Anne Noble

Rainbows would never spring from a crock full of credit cards or computer printouts.

Wishing gets you nothing.

The fever lit on the town of Loughgillan like a flock of Death’s own crows, at first perching wherever their talons could grip easily – upon the very old and the very young. And then, the birds seemed to settle anywhere and everywhere.

Could I ever be as brave as the dream version of myself? I do not believe so.

One chicken cannot sit on the whole world’s eggs.

Your lives are wonders, my girls. They will be wonders from start to finish. Do you not remember the story of how you came to me?

Can you not hear the low bellows of the whales speaking to their children in the deepest deep?” No, I think. I hear nothing but the sound of my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces, each smaller than a single grain of sand.

I do not feel brave. I feel a hundred years old and very, very tired – yet wide awake with worry.

O’Neill told me that Scarff once threw a gold pocket watch into the gaping mouth of an alligator because the incessant ticking drove him to distraction.