Born Quote by Glenda Millard

I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen.

— Glenda Millard

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them…

— Glenda Millard

Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a…

— Glenda Millard

“The wheels hummed lullabies on the liquorice road ...”

— Glenda Millard

“I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.”

— Glenda Millard

“Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.”

— Glenda Millard

“I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, still water. For a second…

— Glenda Millard

“... and all we knew about her that we didn't know the night before was that she had eyes like pansies and skin like…

— Glenda Millard

“I looked at her moonskin face her pansy eyes and her cobweb hair and I knew I would go on giving her one last…

— Glenda Millard

“I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine…

— Glenda Millard

Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.

— Glenda Millard

“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 your balance.…

— Glenda Millard