Cards Quote by Alice Hoffman

“Her journal, the only thing in the world that she owned, held the events of her life. Things she wanted to forget and things…

— Luke Alistar

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of…

— Louise Penny

“Her mind turned to those paintings. The locked treasure chest, the masks, the dark woods. Those symbols were emblematic of her own secret pain—the…

— Michelle Marcos

“For all her few years, I saw her then as I see her now, the sanest, the most uncluttered and the most direct of…

— Fynn

“But hidden drawers, lockable diaries and cryptographic systems could not conceal from Briony the simple truth: she had no secrets. Her wish for a…

— Ian McEwan

“She was the real treasure, more precious than sapphires, diamonds and gold. At the core of his ancient, cynical heart, he was an acquisitive…

— Thea Harrison

“...she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like the treasures…

— Virginia Woolf

“And all these things she always counted on to revisit, they made up a map, the map of a true home. It was the…

— Effrosyni Moschoudi

A treasure...at the top of any list of fantasy to be cherished.

— Andre Norton

“The treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work.”

— Albrecht Durer

“Some of her earliest memories were of her grandmother's house, of a place that smelled like cinnamon and old books. The house felt like…

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

“Her instinct was to defend, to hoard the treasures of her life, to build about herself the symbols of normal existence.”

— John le Carré