Homecoming Quote by Alice McDermott

Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds…

— Eva Ibbotson

“Mary lifted her own steno book. Only about six pages old, it still had its cool, slim heft and straight cardboard covers. By the…

— Alice McDermott

“I could still see that Pauline was one of the most beautiful girls I had ever met, but of the ancient fire which had…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“The sad thing was that Pauline did not really care for clothes and makeup. She merely wanted other women to cast favorable glances her…

— Toni Morrison

“Instead of ignoring her infirmity, pretending it was not there, he made it seem like something special and endearing. For the first time Pauline…

— Toni Morrison

“My mother said Aunt Pauline meant kindly but had standars, which were all very well for those that could afford them.”

— Margaret Atwood

“She reflects on the girl she had been in this place, and the things she had to do in order to survive. For a…

— Susan Wiggs

“In Pauline and Mal’s house, nothing was simple. In her parents’ house, things had been good or bad, right or wrong, useful or wasteful.…

— Celeste Ng

“She recalled how Pauline had fallen off a bus one night, late, went skidding into Creedmoor. In a novel, it would have portended the…

— Alice McDermott

“This was the kind of moral dilemma Pauline often got her into. Mr. Someone-or-Other, Pauline had mouthed. Adele at lunch with him, crying. But…

— Alice McDermott

“Maybe,” she said to Pauline, not looking at her, just turning her head a bit to speak to her from across the aisle and…

— Alice McDermott

“...women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone.…

— Margaret Atwood