Broken glass Quote by Augusten Burroughs

“Dorothy viewed my mother's propensity toward madness not as something to be afraid of, but rather as something to look forward to, like a…

— Augusten Burroughs

“So Dorothy said we might was well go out to Fountainblo with Louie and Robber if Louie would take off his yellow spats which…

— Anita Loos

“My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head…

— Eula Biss

“I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine - inherited, along with dangly earlobes and…

— Tanya Moir

“Dorothy's coming up. I think she's tight." "That's great." I picked up my bathrobe. "I was afraid I was going to have to get…

— Dashiell Hammett

“My mother had comforted me with tales ever since I was small. Sometimes they helped me peel a problem like an onion, or gave…

— Anita Amirrezvani

“reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole. When Dorothy…

— L. Frank Baum

“While Mary brushed my pistachio silk carriage dress, Mama tugged the laces of my corset as tight as they would go. She grunted and…

— Susan Dennard

“..Window panes that rattled under the lash of the wind for two months on end, rain that leaked beneath the doors, her husband out…

— Niall Williams

“What was this past summer to you?” Cinderella said, stalking back and forth like an angry mountain cat. “A joke? A way to amuse…

— K.M. Shea

“Children interested Miss Peters, especially when she found one that had not been run into a mold or cut out of a given piece…

— Ruth Sawyer

“When my high school boyfriend dumped me for my best friend two weeks before the prom, my great aunt Maureen said: Dorothy dear, life…

— Suzanne M. Trauth