Beginning Quote by Stephanie Garber

“The morning felt like a mixing bowl just waiting for its ingredients; there was a sense of possibility to it, a promise of something…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“until the night it ate the baby.”

— Dave Duncan

“Oh what a morning it was, that first morning of Mrs. Sweet awaking before the baby Heracles with his angry cries, declaring his hunger,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“morning had started in a thrillingly delicious manner. He had abducted the lady of his choice and was set on marrying her willy-nilly. He…

— Claudy Conn

“There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She gulped the air like water, the night sky the best meal she had ever had, the starts made succulent and ripe after her…

— Colson Whitehead

“winter morning sun that came from beneath the wooden blinds and marked the new day. Another day. She grew giddy with laughter, convinced as…

— Alice McDermott

“He tasted like summertime - of wicked thunderstorms, fresh clover, and wild honeysuckle - and I had the sensation of falling, my stomach tumbling…

— Angela B. Wade

“The morning is when she lingers. It’s before the world wants anything from her. And, that’s when she’s most beautiful. It’s true not many…

— Wesley Chan

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all…

— Leigh Bardugo

“I feel like a time traveler: June, July, August. Summer dissolves in my mouth and I can’t remember what it tasted like.”

— Zoë Lianne