“Still, experience has taught me that knowing one’s enemy is key to winning any battle.”
— Michelle Zink
“Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.”
— Michelle Zink
“I shake my head. “Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes.” She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek “No mistakes, my angel.”
— Michelle Zink
“I am not my mother. I love her, but I am not her.”
— Michelle Zink
“but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.”
— Michelle Zink
“To find the books end,cross the ancient wood to the mystic isle.Until then, prepare yourselffor the coming battle. . .AND TRUST NO ONE.”
— Michelle Zink
“Alice will always be a beautiful mystery. It is one I am content not to solve.I can love her now in her lovely darkness.” -Amalia Milthorpe”
— Michelle Zink
“The day is like a diamond, all beautiful warmth on the outside but without any heat to accompany it.”
— Michelle Zink
“Its emptiness is more than the lack of living, breathing beings. It is the unread pages of the many books that reside on the shelves throughout the room I should hot have thought one could tell when books have gone unread, but after the company of Birchwood’s well-loved library it is as if I can hear these books whispering, their pages grasping and reaching for an audience.”
— Michelle Zink
“Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don’t notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin.”
— Michelle Zink