“They used to plant yew trees in graveyards”—Lola’s voice so close it made me jump—“because people believed they drank the poison left by the bodies.” — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“with an Excel spreadsheet?” I made a face like that was ridiculous, but of course there had been an Excel spreadsheet. As soon as everyone was ready, we set off. Joni tramped away in one direction with my seven-year-old, Maggie,… — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“I turned round and round in the middle of the road—a broken toy—my wellies clop-clopping over the white line, and the creaking hinges of… — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“The trouble with the Wikipedia generation is that they cannot tolerate ignorance.” — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“But that’s what people do, Woody. People are just walking bags of impulses. Not just teenagers—all of us. We do shitty things because we… — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worst of all, no way out.” — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“tea bag in the box. I drew in a deep breath while I gathered all my best expletives into my” — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“Farther down the road, a hatchback was wrapped around a lamppost, a hanging basket embedded in its windshield. In the other direction was the… — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“You know how people say they would die for their kids? I never got that. What good are we dead? What’s hard is living… — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“That was a habit of mine: not paying attention to the things entrusted to my care.” — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“A moment when the worst had already happened, so there was nothing left to worry about. I wanted to stop forever in that pause… — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“We watched the buzzards soaring with the brutal grace of skateboarding teenagers, up to nothing that was ostensibly no-good, but menacing all the same.” — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
“All these much-celebrated choices that we have, apparently, us modern women. There are no choices, only higher expectations. Except” — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
