“Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.”
―
Jennifer McMahon,
Island of Lost Girls
“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
“Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don’t you think? For doing terrible things to other people.” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
“we all do what we think is best. Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, sometimes we do the right thing. Sometimes we never know. We just have to hope” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I? A: Memories — A FOLK RIDDLE” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
“She was his great adventure; his love for her had taken him places he'd never dreamed of going.” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“And, as in all fairy tales, there was bloodshed, there was loss.” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“Lisa smiled. 'You know how sometimes, you catch the faintest hint of movement in the corner of your eye, then you blink and it's gone? That's them.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
“How can you dream if you don’t have a soul?” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“The tragedies we endure shape our lives: we carry them like shadows,” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Children on the Hill
“Grief is a monster.” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind
“The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
“Young Reverend Ayers looks at a lake and sees only his own reflection in it; that is what God is to him. He does not see the creatures that live down deep, the dragonflies that hover, the frog on the lily pad.” Auntie’s face was full of pity and scorn as she shook her head and spat tobacco juice again. “His heart and mind are closed to the true beauty of the lake, the place where all its magic lies.” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“the dead can blame” ― Jennifer McMahon, Promise Not to Tell
“I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.” ― Jennifer McMahon, My Tiki Girl
“Think of me. Remember me. Love me.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
“Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don’t you think? For doing terrible things to other people.” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
“we all do what we think is best. Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, sometimes we do the right thing. Sometimes we never know. We just have to hope” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I? A: Memories — A FOLK RIDDLE” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
“She was his great adventure; his love for her had taken him places he'd never dreamed of going.” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“And, as in all fairy tales, there was bloodshed, there was loss.” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“Lisa smiled. 'You know how sometimes, you catch the faintest hint of movement in the corner of your eye, then you blink and it's gone? That's them.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
“How can you dream if you don’t have a soul?” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“The tragedies we endure shape our lives: we carry them like shadows,” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Children on the Hill
“Grief is a monster.” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Drowning Kind
“The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
“Young Reverend Ayers looks at a lake and sees only his own reflection in it; that is what God is to him. He does not see the creatures that live down deep, the dragonflies that hover, the frog on the lily pad.” Auntie’s face was full of pity and scorn as she shook her head and spat tobacco juice again. “His heart and mind are closed to the true beauty of the lake, the place where all its magic lies.” ― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People
“the dead can blame” ― Jennifer McMahon, Promise Not to Tell
“I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.” ― Jennifer McMahon, My Tiki Girl
“Think of me. Remember me. Love me.” ― Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
