Claire Fuller Quotes

It's the worst kind of person who goes back on a promise, even one they made to themselves.

It's about believing two opposing ideas in your head at the same time: hope and grief.

My father was fond of saying 'If you own too many possessions sooner or later they start owning you.

Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words 'to father' have such a different meaning from the words 'to mother'.

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.

Fiction is about readers. Without readers there is no point in books, and therefore they are as important as the author, perhaps more important.

The house had always been full of books, far too many for one person to get through in a lifetime. Her father didn't collect them to read, to own first editions or to keep those signed by the author; Gil collected them for the handwritten marginalia and doodles that marked the pages, for the forgotten ephemera used as bookmarks. Every time Flora came home he would show her his new discoveries: left-behind photographs, postcards and letters, bail slips, receipts, handwritten recipes and drawings, valentines and tickets, sympathy cards, excuse notes to teachers; bits of paper with which he could piece together other people's lives, other people who had read the same books he held and who had marked their place.

In the middle, the river was a deep green, scattered with rocks poking their noses up for a breath. The water charged around them, creating eddies and whirlpools. Closer to the bank, the current dragged lengths of weed along with it so it seemed that long-haired women swam just under the surface, never coming up for air.

May your bones be washed by the saltwater, your spirit return to the sand and the love we have for you be forever around us.