Quote by Alice McDermott Download Open image ““The wind,” Mary said again. “It was making everyone tear up.”” — Alice McDermott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The next day, Mary walked through the rubble of their destroyed house. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
“For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.” — Y.S. Lee Copy Share Image
“Crying had made her want a shoulder on which to rest her head, arms to hold her. She'd wasted too many tears alone in… — Laurie Alice Eakes Copy Share Image
“Turning her face away from him, she let the tears fall at last. They were carried away on the wind as if they'd never… — Rosalie Lario Copy Share Image
“Pauline examined her face for a few seconds more, her jaw set. And then she smiled a little, not kindly, raising her eyebrows and… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“She gave herself up to the waves of the storm. If they drowned, it would be together, a shattered vessel on the sea, a… — Erin Kellison Copy Share Image
“It was a long story, and sometimes she grew quiet and cried - and during those times he leaned over to wipe away her… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“He would never forget how that last tear trickled down her cheek. Her lifeless eyes and hand still reached to the busy crowd, as… — Mia Thompson Copy Share Image
“Though her eyes had looked drained of every last tear, they flooded again.” — Jonathan Renshaw Copy Share Image
“Some vestige of his race or of his sex made him think, whenever he looked out across the ocean: As it was before me… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous days of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“John Keane pressed his chest to the steering wheel as he put the key in the ignition, taking a deep breath as he did,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“The fourth contraction seized her and suddenly she was perspiring. She heard herself cry out and then she heard the children’s voices like sparks… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“THE TINY SPIDERS that lived in the higher branches of the downed tree (which now meant the branches that lay on the other side… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music in it,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Michael had slipped beyond the crest of the dune. Jacob was lying flat out now, on his stomach, his little men all before him,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Not a soul,” Mary Keane said to her husband, the wind lifting her words, tossing them gently back over her shoulder, the way it… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“There wasn’t a tear to be seen on the faces of the men and women in the street as the two of them walked… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“His love for his children bore down on his heart with the weight of three heavy stones. There were all his unnamed fears for… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Mr. Persichetti knew that six weeks before its time and with a good thirty-minute ride to the hospital once the ambulance came (would it… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Mike Shea became a medic during the war and was now married, working for Pfizer. To this day he can’t look at her straight.… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
