104 Quotes by Jennifer McMahon

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

And as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy. Daniel would be a saint now that he was dead. A beautiful man who made his child wings.

Grief is a monster.[Barbara, therapist to Jax Harkness]

Some things are out of our control. Sometimes, terrible things happen and there is not a damned thing we can do to stop them. But here she was, given the chance to make a difference.

All great heroes have a flaw. It’s one of the things that makes them heroes.

I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.

The attic smelled like dust and mice. Piper was sure she could hear faint scuttling sounds off in the shadows, feel beady eyes upon her. She hoped it was only mice and not something larger, something more dangerous.Was it more than rustling?Was that faint breathing she heard coming from the darkest corner, the place where no light touched?