“The trouble with the Wikipedia generation is that they cannot tolerate ignorance.” — Jo Furniss Ignorance Copy Share Image
“It was Saturday. Still morning. Cloudy with a high risk of tantrums.” — Jo Furniss Cloudy Copy Share Image
“That was a habit of mine: not paying attention to the things entrusted to my care.” — Jo Furniss Entrusted 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 Tea 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… — Jo Furniss Buzzards 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… — Jo Furniss Wood Copy Share Image
“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… — Jo Furniss Trees 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 Choice Copy Share Image
“All these much-celebrated choices that we have, apparently, us modern women. There are no choices, only higher expectations.” — Jo Furniss Choice 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… — Jo Furniss Kids 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… — Jo Furniss Cause and effect 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… — Jo Furniss Human life Copy Share Image
“A kids’ CD was playing quietly on the stereo: a scene from The Wind in the Willows. A plummy voice intoned, “There… — Jo Furniss Quietly 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… — Jo Furniss Time Copy Share Image
“fingers, but Joni intercepted it and ducked off into the dark to see to him herself. Lola and I exchanged significant looks… — Jo Furniss Faces Looked 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… — Jo Furniss Middle Road Copy Share Image
“The tears had washed me out, like an enema for the heart. I was hollow. Light.” — Jo Furniss Tears 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… — Jo Furniss Kids 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… — Jo Furniss Kids 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… — Jo Furniss Trees Copy Share Image
