“Some people, like my dad, have invisible scars; others, like Tia, have scars you can see.” — Glenda Millard Scar Copy Share Image
“You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.” — Glenda Millard Friends Copy Share Image
“Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.” — Glenda Millard Dreams Copy Share Image
“I never had anything before this all started. I've lived in No-Man's-Land for thirty years.” — Glenda Millard No-man-s-land Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.” — Glenda Millard Live Copy Share Image
Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part. — Glenda Millard Easy Copy Share Image
I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen. — Glenda Millard Things happen Copy Share Image
“He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken; a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can… — Glenda Millard Broken Copy Share Image
“... I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most… — Glenda Millard Beautiful Copy Share Image
Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need… — Glenda Millard Book Copy Share Image
“I looked at her moonskin face her pansy eyes and her cobweb hair and I knew I would go on giving her… — Glenda Millard Last chance Copy Share Image
“It's like waking up and finding there's a war on. Nothing's the way it used to be and it's difficult to get… — Glenda Millard Billy Copy Share Image
“... and all we knew about her that we didn't know the night before was that she had eyes like pansies and… — Glenda Millard Eyes Copy Share Image
“She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost… — Glenda Millard Beautiful Copy Share Image
Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never… — Glenda Millard Gone Copy Share Image
“The girl danced like light on water. After I'd watched for a while I looked with all of me, not just my… — Glenda Millard Beautiful Copy Share Image
I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out… — Glenda Millard Angry Copy Share Image
“... we sat back and let the moon shine itself all over her, and we saw that Tia was full of light.… — Glenda Millard Born Copy Share Image
“I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, still water. For… — Glenda Millard Eyes Copy Share Image
I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you. — Glenda Millard Cases Copy Share Image
“Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.” — Glenda Millard Dark Copy Share Image
“I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of… — Glenda Millard Magic Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ... — Glenda Millard Dark Copy Share Image
“I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down… — Glenda Millard Empty space Copy Share Image
When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying… — Glenda Millard Behinds Copy Share Image
“Wars come and wars go,' he said. 'Things change, but the carousel is always here. It reminds people of the good times.” — Glenda Millard Carousel Copy Share Image
You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if… — Glenda Millard Believe Copy Share Image
Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through… — Glenda Millard Astronomy Copy Share Image
“We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They… — Glenda Millard Burning inside Copy Share Image
“But saying stuff, even if it's good, isn't enough. Dad never did anything, he just talked about it. Even I knew you… — Glenda Millard Doing Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water… — Glenda Millard Colour Copy Share Image
