Chocolate pudding Quote by Amy Stolls

“She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying "Young Lady" after every sentence.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“story she used to tell me when I was a child, just a made-up story. Lately,”

— Karen McQuestion

“Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“But there was something strange about her that made me think she was "somebody." I don't mean her poise, the cool manner in which…

— Anne Rice

“To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories.”

— Shogo Oketani

“She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“They weren’t like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.”

— Sam Lipsyte

“They say she was once a grand lady and lived on the hill. But she took to reading books and went from bad to…

— The Glass Slipper screenpaly byHelen Deutsch

“But Erin let it slide. The child was only four years old; she had a whole lifetime to learn about sadness. Today was for…

— Carl Hiaasen

“Emma felt like a Raggedy Ann doll accidentally mixed in with the Barbies.”

— Meg Gray

“In some inexplicable way she’d been looking forward to it and all its attendant drama, because wasn’t there something nearly lovely—when you were young…

— Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

— Carl Sandburg