168 Quotes by Julianna Baggott

My memories will be erased and then I’ll be force-fed the story from the society pages?

Love is a luxury. It’s something that people are allowed to indulge in when they’re not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things – to my mind – like story, character, image, language.

The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again – without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.

We each have a story. They did this to us. There was no outside aggressor. They wanted an apocalypse. They wanted the end. And they made it happen. It was orchestrated – who got in, who didn’t. There was a master list. We weren’t on it. We were left here to die. They want to erase us, the past, but we can’t let them.

She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they’re fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.

The dirt,” he says, his voice strangely peaceful. “What about it?” she asks. “It’s dirty.

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently – as if whispering it into one ear – and to know the characters intimately.

The sky is a bruise, only a storm will heal it.