“We rode through the suburbs, the ticking of our gears the only sound. I'd rarely been out this late, and never without my parents. Everything lay in a wrap of shadows. I felt an ownership of the night, and perhaps a whole world that didn't exist in daytime. We cut down a path tapering through the woods. The forest was alive with movement...” NightBoysGirlsComing Of AgeAdolescencePuberty Book:The Saturday Night Ghost Club Source: The Saturday Night Ghost Club
“You can't hate your best friend for taking opportunities he'd been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn't it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.” JealousyOpportunitiesBest Friends Book:Cataract City Source: Cataract City
“At this, Calvin kissed my son on the nose, his lips pressed to the sheet.” FamilyAffectionUnclesNephews Book:The Saturday Night Ghost Club Source: The Saturday Night Ghost Club
“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been engaged in a low wattage war someplace.” KidsWorkChildhoodDad Book:Cataract City Source: Cataract City
“She rode down the sidewalk, turned toward the shadow side of the street and melted into darkness. I didn't know it then, but after that night, I'd see less and less of Dove. She began to dabble with things best left undabbled with.” RelationshipsGrowing UpComing Of AgeAdolescenceTeenage LovePubertyTeenage Years Book:The Saturday Night Ghost Club Source: The Saturday Night Ghost Club
“Love is a sickness. Some kind of a pathogen existing above all explanation.” KindLove IsExplanationSicknessPathogens Book:Sarah Court Source: Sarah Court
“How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we'd rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.” KnowsSelfAsksWishForeverDyingAspectStrangerPassingPassingsPassing Through Book:Sarah Court Source: Sarah Court