Quote by Anne Carson

“But like all beautiful faces Emily's made you believe that its possessor was a better person than she was. It allowed her to pass…

— Michael Chabon

“Emily's convalescence was rather slow. Physically she recovered with normal celerity but a certain spiritual and emotional languor persisted for a time. One cannot…

— L.M. Montgomery

“She was painfully shy, but physically she was brave to a surprising degree. She loved few persons, but those few with a passion of…

— Eva Hope

“Seeing him tonight, driving off with his friends, made Emily yearn for the old days. They were happy then. Best friends in love. And…

— Jen Blau

“Emily wasn’t supposed to be someone I thought about months later. She was supposed to be a fun distraction, like all the other nameless…

— Monica Alexander

“Emily looked into his eyes. They were blank, unreadable. That was the worst kind of person, the scariest—the one who’d learned to keep his…

— Lisa Unger

“Emily just knew that the grocery store clerk’s cousin had slipped on a bath mat and fallen out a second-story open window only to…

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

“It really was a very strange feeling she had about Emily. It arose from her being so desolate. She did not like to own…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She was, after all, no longer Emily Vale, the peculiar girl who preferred books and frogs to gossip and pretty dresses; whom no one…

— Katharine Ashe

“It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty. Between…

— L.M. Montgomery

“When I turned and looked at Emily she looked like a composite of all the women who would have nothing to do with me.”

— Carl-John X. Veraja

“It pained Emily to her librarian’s soul to see books mistreated like this.”

— Deborah Harkness