“River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
“The crow cawed again overhead, and a strong sea wind came in and burst through the trees, making the green pine needles shake themselves all over the place. That sound always gave me goose bumps, the good kind. It was… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
“And eventually I realized that the reason I felt so peaceful was because Wink wasn’t taking stock. She wasn’t trying to figure out if… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
“I walked into her arms and we hugged like hugging was breathing and we'd been holding our breath for a long, long time.” — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
“Shopping at the Dandelion Co-op made me feel European. Very Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina in Paris (that movie played a few weeks ago in… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
“River looked out the kitchen window, at the purple-black sky and the purple-black sea. "I've been having nightmares since I turned fourteen. Always. But then I took a nap with you a few days ago, and, all of a sudden, they're gone. I leave for a day, and 'boom', they come back, just like that." He paused. "You know what… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share
“The Citizen's attic was, objectively, breathtaking. The place was littered with trunks and old clothes and wardrobes and pieces of furniture and strange metal toys no one had played with in sixty years and half-painted canvases and on and on. There were several round windows to let in the sunlight, and I loved how it raked its way across the… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share
“I had to tell someone that a panther-hipped boy had come to live in my backyard.” — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
“People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long” — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
“Our town was small enough that I never developed a healthy fear of strangers. To me, they were exciting things, gift-wrapped and full of… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
“River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
“You stop fearing the Devil when you're holding his hand...” — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
“I pulled a black party dress and fake pearls out of a wooden trunk- very 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'- and went into the wardrobe to put the dress on. When I came out, River took one look at me and grinned. A nice, kind of 'appreciative' grin. "You need to put your hair up," he said. So I dug around in… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share
“That girl made me feel like I was dreaming. Broad daylight dreaming.” — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
