Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had…

There is no problem a library card can't solve.

— Eleanor Brown

“But Rose learned an important lesson: people don't always do what you tell them to do.”

— Eleanor Brown

“She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A few hundred," she said. "How do you…

— Eleanor Brown

“Sisters keep secrets. Because sisters' secrets are swords.”

— Eleanor Brown

“Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.”

— Eleanor Brown

“Here's one of the problems with communicating in the words of a man who is not around to explain himself: it's damn hard sometimes…

— Eleanor Brown

“Yes, you'd make a great partner for him. What with the embezzling and the adultery and the drinking. That's what every man wants in…

— Eleanor Brown

“Oh honey, we’re all fuckups in our own special ways.”

— Eleanor Brown

“This conversation, you will not be surprised to know, was the impetus for their breakup, given that it caused her to realize the emotion…

— Eleanor Brown

“We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.”

— Eleanor Brown

“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that…

— Eleanor Brown

“And the baby would never know what it meant to hate Barnwell so deeply that she couldn't help but return to it.”

— Eleanor Brown

“We've all done foolish, foolish things, dear. In my experience, good people punish themselves far more than any external body can manage. And I…

— Eleanor Brown

“We all have stories we tell ourselves. We tell ourselves we are too fat, or too ugly, or too old, or too foolish. We…

— Eleanor Brown

Every room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop.

— Eleanor Brown