I felt laid bare, a fruit split open to reveal a moldering…

“Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked.”

— Tosca Lee

“In the beginning there was God...but for me there was Adam.”

— Tosca Lee

“You are necessary to that end, and to me...you are all I have of the garden. You are the image of me and of…

— Tosca Lee

God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.

— Tosca Lee

“I have always contended that girls are the sturdier of the genders and wondered in secret if the One that Is might not best…

— Tosca Lee

“Go away. Go live out your gnat's existence." "But we're not done!" Her eyes lolled back to me. "Yes, we are." "But--I don't know…

— Tosca Lee

“Suffice it to say, we were horrified by the entire concept of dying, even if we weren't the ones with the death sentence.”

— Tosca Lee

“The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a…

— Tosca Lee

“So as I said, the world was mutating," she said, prick, prick, pricking at the cloth, looking up at me once to make sure,…

— Tosca Lee

“Trust me, at the time nine hundred years seemed frighteningly short - it still does. I really don't know how you cope with your…

— Tosca Lee

And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might…

— Tosca Lee

“She shrugged. "He sat back, called it good, and rested." I waited. She waited. I raised my brows. "And?" Her mouth curved into a…

— Tosca Lee

“Sweat trickled down my sides inside my sweater. "Why? Why did you do this?" "Because this is your life, Clay: fleeting, ephemeral, and insignificant…

— Tosca Lee

I always hope that readers, of my books, will take away whatever is most meaningful to them wherever they are at right now. It…

— Tosca Lee

I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.

— Tosca Lee