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“Part of being a good funeral directorâ€�
and even a good friend—is knowing that someone may not want to be consoled. They may not welcome your words of support, and you need to respect that. Someone else’s grief is not for you to solve.”
― Joanne Levy, Sorry For Your Loss

“Finn said to Shannon, “It’s our hearse. They’re planning to take you in our hearse.â€�

“What’s a hearse?â€� Piper asked.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Ireland

“We sat at a mahogany table that had enough nicks and dents to be an English muffin. I wondered for a sec if the Irish called them English muffins or something else.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Ireland

“Instantly my hair started to scrunch up. Ringlets pulled out of the braids like they wanted to remind everyone that I was cursed and I couldn’t hang out…CiCi stopped twirling long enough to notice. “Yikes!”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Ireland

“Finn made a gurgling noise from his throat that didn’t sound exactly like choking, but then again, I’d never seen anyone being poisoned before. I was standing over him, ready to do CPR, when I noticed that he wasn’t choking; he was laughing.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Ireland

“I looked at the soda bread and the cottage. It all felt very grandmotherly, once you got past the “Hansel and Gretelâ€� thing.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Ireland

“Come on. Boys can wait.â€� I moved her farther away from them.

“I’m dealing with a curse here, or did you forget?”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Ireland

“She doesn’t look like much of a Project Runway gal, if you know what I mean. Capes are so last year.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Ireland

“It was the woman I’d been certain had been planning to bake me in her oven but instead, had rescued us with a tractor.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Ireland

“Did you see that bloke’s fingers go into the blender? He didn’t even feel it. I think I want to be a zombie when I die.â€� “Too true,â€� Gordo said. “But with better hair.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in London

“A regular Ferris wheel from a Wilmington carnival was like a dwarf planet compared to this gigantic wheel.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in London

“Ellie said, “Give me the Pad-i, and I’ll type today.â€�

“Pad-i?� I asked.

“Yeah. Like ‘Pad Thai,’� she said.

I asked, “What’s wrong with ‘iPad�?�

“I thought it might be fun to change it. You know, see if it catches on.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in London

“You can climb out of your designer bag now. I’ve never actually seen someone try to fit inside a handbag. You gave it a good go. Let me try.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in London

“VIP?â€� Ellie asked. “Ha-ha-ha! I said ‘peeâ€�!”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in London

“I pictured myself falling off and getting trampled to death. Caroline would be beyond embarrassed, but I wouldn’t care because I’d be dead, and Ellie would have her fill of blood and guts until the sequel to Bloodsucking Zombies was released.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in London

“I don’t know. Let me think. Do I want pie? Am I even hungry? Oh, this is a hard decision. Maybe I should call the DUH, YES, I LOVE PIE ASSOCIATION.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in London

“Quel Dommage!â€� That was “bummerâ€� in French, or maybe “too bad,â€� or “scrambled eggs.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Paris

“When she backed up the Petmobile it made a Beep! Beep! Beep! that attracted even more attention than the average minivan dressed like a cat–dog.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Paris

“We were going for cake with…wait for it…a six-foot snake.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Paris

“Like the time JTC sent me an invitation to MaryEllen Marini’s costume party, which might have been okay if I was actually invited to her party, and it had been a costume party.”
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Paris

“Courage is fear that has said it's prayers!"

Pastor Richardson
The Two Brothers - Knights of the Rushing Wind”
― L. Meurell Ball, The Two Brothers : Knights of the Rushing Wind

“Fourteen-year-old Connor Hansen raced at full speed through the shiny, sterile emergency room hallways of Westley Hospital. He was excited ... and terrified. He was about to do what he had been training for almost his entire life. But if he failed, someone would die. Paramedics rushed toward him, pushing a bright-yellow gurney that carried a bloodied, lifeless man whose heart had stopped beating. It was Connor's job to get the man's heart started again. Connor was a doctor.”
― J.W. Lynne, Kid Docs

“It was only one kiss. It wasn’t a deep kiss, a French kiss, the kind of kiss that redefines a teen life. It was pepperoni, snowflakes, spit, and rodeo dust. Crazy, like dancing and soaring and walking to a new home.
Sweeter because it didn’t taste like good-bye.”
― Cynthia Leitich Smith, Rain Is Not My Indian Name