The Ice Queen : A Novel (edit title)

Melanie A edited the quotations of The Ice Queen : A Novel Thursday, November 12 2009.

• Added a quotation: “The best way to die is while you're living.”

Melanie A edited the quotations of The Ice Queen : A Novel Wednesday, November 11 2009.

• Added a quotation: “The story is always about searching for the truth, no matter what it might bring. Even when nothing was what it appeared to be, when everything was hidden, there was a center not even I could run from: who I truly was, what I felt, what I was deep inside.”

Melanie A edited the quotations of The Ice Queen : A Novel Wednesday, November 11 2009.

• Added a quotation: “If a secret was only unrealized knowledge, as my brother had said, what harm could it do? How dangerous could a tiny shred of truth be? It had no thorns, no talons, no teeth nor tail nor sting. Truth, sleeping on the other side of what I knew. Of course, there were a hundred versions of the same story: a woman who has to learn what she already knows, somehow, somewhere inside.”

Melanie A edited the quotations of The Ice Queen : A Novel Wednesday, November 11 2009.

• Added a quotation: “'Secrets are only knowledge that hasn't yet been uncovered,' he told me. 'Therefore, they're not in fact secrets, but only unrealized truth.'”Ned

Melanie A edited the quotations of The Ice Queen : A Novel Wednesday, November 11 2009.

• Added a quotation: “I peeked inside the box where the dead mole was kept. Some ants had gotten into the mess. There was a smell of damp skin, earth, rot. Nothing pretty. Nothing to keep. Looking at the box, I realized I couldn't let go; not even of this. I'd been that way all my life, holding on tight. I couldn't let go of anything. Except for the things that mattered most.”

Melanie A edited the quotations of The Ice Queen : A Novel Wednesday, November 11 2009.

• Added a quotation: “How easy it was to be undone by some things. By these things. Red pearls. Truth. What you don't want to know, need to know, have to keep in the palm of your hand. Grab it, the stinging nettle, the wasp, the shard of glass. Do it. Then live with the consequences.”

Melanie A edited the quotations of The Ice Queen : A Novel Wednesday, November 11 2009.

• Added a quotation: “People hide their truest natures. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under the trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves? Keep a cloak, that was fine, the thing to do; present a disguise, the outside you, the one you want people to believe.”

Melanie A edited the quotations of The Ice Queen : A Novel Wednesday, November 11 2009.

• Added a quotation: “I had lost something before I'd known its worth, and now it was too late.”
• Added a quotation: “Avoid life, perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip. *Stay away from it all.*”
• Added a quotation: “What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual's soul.”

Melanie A edited the first sentence of The Ice Queen : A Novel Wednesday, November 11 2009.

• Be careful what you wish for.

Timothy Gray approved Kelly M’s request to combine 5 books, including The Ice Queen : A Novel, Friday, October 30 2009.