16 Quotes by Kate Racculia

Alice wonders if anyone has ever tended Jill, in any way, and if her intelligent ferocity is what happens when a girl has had to teach herself how to be human.

They filled his secret heart and made it less afraid.

What you felt, the beast that swallowed you all and spat you back out, that is the great big bloody point of all this. If you learn nothing else from this bizarre and awkward experience – this gathering of strangers to blow into horns and pluck catgut – remember that you have the power to feel that. The power to create that. With your hands. Your breath. You are gods, children, and you can make war.

Alice is horrified at the prospect of losing her grip on the most essential things in her life – her brother, her talent, her self – in the seismic shift known as life after graduation. She can’t imagine who she’ll be on the other side.

Libraries had always made her feel like a kid, in a good way: secret and safe and taken care of, rocked to sleep in a cocoon of books.

Because my heart is running the show today.

There is only ever one afternoon, and it ends. But one afternoon can hold so much beauty and so much love.