Beth Neff Quotes & Sayings

Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away as she could, and then watching to see what would happen next, what would roll back to her, what would have gotten left behind. — Beth Neff

Sarah wonders if whatever secrets Grace is protecting feel the same as her own, sometimes just fuzzy and ticklish, like a littler of kittens trying to climb and paw their way out, and sometimes with claws bared, kittens grown to tigers, camouflaged but always ready to spring. — Beth Neff

Asking a question is just another way of telling you what to do. — Beth Neff

She prunes the idea away like a faded rose blossom, and quickly discards it as if the thorns might puncture her resolve. — Beth Neff