Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.

- Paula Sharp

Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimens…

- Paula Sharp

Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that gro…

- Paula Sharp

... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse: If you knew early that yo…

- Paula Sharp

Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.

- Paula Sharp