Quotes by Ann Stephens

“If you want to be a writer you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot,” Stephen King writes in his book On Writing.””

“I was like two ends of a ribbon, a bow untied. Frayed at the ends.  I could never tie it back for Marla, never pretend to be a perfect daughter. This time, I'd abandoned her and all her dreams, and that was terrible. But I'd tied the other end of the ribbon to Jet, and I would sacrifice everything not to let go of her””

“She swallowed, then set her burger down and looked right into me, past my eyes and into the real Blue. "Every child deserves to have a home. Every child deserves a safe place to live and good food and clean clothes and an education and spiritual guidance. And love, Chris. It's not your fault that you're alone.””

“Listen up. Airlines never cared for but two things: greed and regulations. They didn't like the Secession, but they sure stuck around long as there was money to be made. Hiked their rates so high nobody could afford to fly and then blamed it on the Republic. And then those fake regulations about firearms. Unconstitutional! I mean, nobody's going to hijack a plane if everybody's armed””

“The God's truth was the truth the Republic lived by, the truth on the TVs and at schools, the truth written all over our constitution after the Great Secession. The Plain truth, which Daw grunted about at home after a few beers, was a little more raw. The Plain truth always seemed to be followed by bribery and lies and corruption, which made Daw fume. I didn't understand half the things Daw ranted about, but I knew that the God's truth wasn't always the whole truth””