“The girls listened in silence, hypnotized, no longer caring about teachers or dorm monitors or Latin. A few sweet moments of peaceful quiet, the kind only the radio could give them, a few moments of nothing but sound from the world outside, where people were living and singing and playing songs. Normal people in a normal world.” PeaceFriendshipSilenceRadio Book:The Broken Girls Source: The Broken Girls
“As she hooked her legs over the backs of his thighs and smelled the scent of his skin and let all her thoughts spiral away as sensation took over.” ThoughtsSensation Book:The Broken Girls Source: The Broken Girls
“Books were her salvation. As a child, she’d had a shelf of childhood favorites that she loved enough to read over and over again. But after, during the hospital stay and the long voyage and the cold days in Idlewild’s dreary hallways, books became more than mere stories. They were her lifeline, the pages as essential to her as breathing.” Books Book:The Broken Girls Source: The Broken Girls
“That was what the books did—they turned off your thinking for you, put their thoughts in your head so you wouldn't have your own.” ReadingReading Books Book:The Broken Girls Source: The Broken Girls
“There are large moments in life; but sometimes it is the small moments - the casual moments - that change everything. The second's absent wandering of attention before an accident. The choice to take one road, instead of another.” Choices Book:The Haunting of Maddy Clare Source: The Haunting of Maddy Clare
“What will I write in this beautiful book? She carried the book to class for the rest of the day, and that night she put it under her pillow, still blank. She liked it blank right now, liked to know that it was waiting, listening. Just like her friends.” WritingNotebookStationary Book:The Broken Girls Source: The Broken Girls