"I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut them because they didn't seem essential and they slowed the pace of the story in the first third of the book. They were essential to me, though, in that I learned about my characters."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Edan Lepucki

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #School Quotes

“Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth. "Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.”
“Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.”

Source : Chelsea Cain (2012). “Kill You Twice: An Archie Sheridan / Gretchen Lowell Novel”, p.246, Macmillan
“I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.”
“I prefer Independent music, in which we have control to our music.”
“What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.”
“Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.”
“If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?”
“It's not going to do anything. And it really is disappointing because the president has an opportunity here to work with organizations like the NRA, who have actually done a lot of significant work when it comes to actually keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. Hillary Clinton can attack the NRA all she wants, the fact is that the NRA has a higher approval rating than Hillary Clinton does when it comes to trustworthiness, that's for sure.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com

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