“Dear Amelia, I hear there are giant jellyfish in the Arctic, tentacles longer than train carriages. Haystacks fly over cities in whirlwinds, and fish frogs and turtles rain on towns. There are spaces of perfect nothing that they call black… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“There's a lot you can do with a name like Amelia. You can play with it, sure, is what you think I'm going to say. Make it cute (Amy), or cuter (Millie), complaining (Meelie), or French, I guess, like the… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“As if Riley and Amelia were lions, and we were a menage a trois of lively, prancing deer.” — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Ah, even sitting here on my front porch, looking out over the fields, there's a part of me aches to see him walking. To… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
I love her bare legs from a distance. When she's standing by a pool. When she's facing the water, thinking. Her legs are white… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
I saw your name in lights last night. It's the middle of the night, and I can't sleep, thinking all my trumpeting thoughts, and… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. [...] My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead. — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know. — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“I never saw anything like it. He was like the bit in the movie where Tom Cruise is a lawyer and he's decided he's… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
![“She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. [...] My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed. Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful…” quote by Jaclyn Moriarty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f85/jaclyn-moriarty-13344_attention-span_she-s-always-getting-into-trouble-becaus_734185.jpg)
