“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
“As if Riley and Amelia were lions, and we were a menage a trois of lively, prancing deer.” — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know. — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share
“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
“Dear Amelia, I hear there are giant jellyfish in the Arctic, tentacles longer than train carriages. Haystacks fly over cities in whirlwinds, and fish… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share
I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half. Every single… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share
“When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share
