Moïra Fowley-Doyle

“In the ghost house in the last days of the accident season, we were never going to die.”

“We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.”

“I think that we all drown, in one way or another.”

“Every first is a loss.”

“I am afraid of everybody else's secrets”

“Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.”

“There's this magical place,' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...”

“I think the we all drown, in one way or another.”