7 quotes
There are many good things in the world, and each of them happens for the first time only once, and never again.
In an Absent Dream (2019)
“Sometimes ‘fair’ is bigger than just you,” said the Archivist.…“Sometimes ‘fair’ has to think about what’s best for everyone.”
In an Absent Dream (2019)
If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.
In an Absent Dream (2019)
Parents lied to children when they thought it was necessary, or when they thought that it would somehow make things better. It only made sense that children should lie to parents in the same way.
In an Absent Dream (2019)
Paperwork is a magic in and of itself. It makes spouses out of strangers, makes homes out of houses…and mades students out of runaways.
In an Absent Dream (2019)
Katherine understood rules. Understood them down to the marrow of her bones. Rules were the reason the world could work at all. Following the rules didn’t make you a good person, just like breaking them didn’t make you a bad one, but it could make you an invisible person, and invisible people got to do as they liked.
In an Absent Dream (2019)
Miss Hansard, who had been teaching for nearly twenty years, slumped against her desk and wondered when retirement had gone from a distant impossibility to something to be devoutly yearned for. They got younger every year. She was certain of that much, at least. They got younger, and harder to understand, every single year.
In an Absent Dream (2019)