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“This story is about people, and how they lived; before how and why they died became what defined them.”

Book:The Mercies

Source: The Mercies

“That's another thing about words: there's space in them. They change according to whose mouth they're coming out of. Sometimes they change so much in mine they become something else entirely, but Dad says these are called lies.”

Book:Julia and the Shark

Source: Julia and the Shark

“It is knowing that all your joy is bound up in another, and to be parted from it would be to live without light for the rest of your days.”

Joy Relationship Togetherness

Book:The Mercies

Source: The Mercies

“…she isn’t sure a life spent here is worthy of the label of living.”

Life Living Worthy

Book:The Mercies

Source: The Mercies

“Handsome man, as these Scots often seem to be…”

Men Handsome Scots

Book:The Mercies

Source: The Mercies

“She’d remembered it as sexy, but now the first lines repeated in her head like a hymn: There were never strawberries / like the ones we had / that sultry afternoon, and she understood for the first time the past tense of it, the longing for what is passed. The fumbling for something that is gone and cannot come again. A memory made sweeter for the fact it is a memory. That was what she meant by the poster – for it to be a trigger, a portal, a way back.”

Author:Kiran Millwood Hargrave

“…she has taken to wearing her faith like armour, wielding her piousness like a blade.”

Faith Piousness

Book:The Mercies

Source: The Mercies