“I hate that you have to go Cleo. I feel like all the important people I have in my life just leave me one by one.”
Lucinda – Chapter Twelve
Lucinda – Chapter Eleven
“See ya around, Ice Princess.”
Lucinda – Chapter Ten
just remember that every relationship is like a rose. It needs to be tended, cut back now and again, handled with kid gloves and be wary of thorns. But if you give it enough attention, enough love, it will blossom into a beautiful flower.
Lucinda – Chapter Nine
There were days when you just wish you could unburden all your problems on the ones you love; only you never want your problems to become their problems. So all of you suffer in silence. Families are funny that way.
Lucinda – Chapter Nine
He climbed into the taxi, and it began to pull away, but then it stopped. He opened the door and for an instant I wondered if he had second thoughts. But he just added, “Hey Cinder?” “Yeah?” “Do me a favor and find out the truth about daddy
Lucinda – Chapter Seven
There wasn’t anything she couldn’t accomplish if she set her mind to it. It seemed to me though if you tried to capture her spirit or hold her too close, she would fly off into the night on a pair of gossamer wings. You couldn’t cage her or pigeonhole her. She would not stand to fall to the whim of mediocrity.
Lucinda – Chapter 5
But I couldn’t sit down. My legs wouldn’t carry me from where I was standing. I knew before he said it. I knew before the words were out of his mouth.
Shannon McCauley - Author 