Quote by Stephen P. Kiernan

“And what is life but a little row in a small boat, every moment leaving what we know, every stroke unable to see where…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“The memory still made her blush, though in the many months since then, the thrill in her heart had been replaced entirely by longing.…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“Was there always to be someone who, by comparison, made your circumstances seem fortunate?”

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“Are you with the Resistance?” “No. I am simply trying to survive, and to help those I can.” Fleur”

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“Perhaps slavery is harder for a person who has known freedom. Perhaps it does not matter. The”

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“No deception lasts forever. Truth rises like good bread dough.”

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“Fear, they learned, did not live in the heart or mind. It inhabited the stomach like a bad oyster. There was nothing to do…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“Even now, the angling of the light into this room. The curl of the curtain as it falls from a slackening breeze. To call…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“My mother died halfway when they shot my father. Then almost halfway more, after what the soldiers did to her. Today was the last…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“a lifetime’s worth of narratives happening at once—the television. At first I was amazed. Soon I found it predictable, however, and dulling to the…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“When Emma was fifteen Uncle Ezra had taught her reduction, boiling a full pot of beef or chicken stock down to a quarter cup…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“My literary references seem right, but no one around me is well read enough to correct any errors.”

— Stephen P. Kiernan