“ When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write. Carla H. Krueger
“ I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food". Carla H. Krueger
“ A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate. Carla H. Krueger
“ Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving her spells – an object Bea insisted always hung above her… Carla H. Krueger
“ She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt. Carla H. Krueger
“ Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere. Carla H. Krueger
“ For no real reason – well, perhaps because of the seriousness under the trees or Nader’s hair, which was very messy and covered in little grass seeds – Katie began to giggle. She knew it was wrong, ye… Carla H. Krueger
“ Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past. Carla H. Krueger
“ He remembers how someone – he forgets who – once said in a sarcastic tone, “Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously… Carla H. Krueger
“ Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The Ques… Carla H. Krueger
“ On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harde… Carla H. Krueger