First place Quote by Ben Montgomery

“Emma sat up very straight in the saddle. Her eyes were huge, but she said bravely, “I could do it!” “I know you can.”…

— Josh Lanyon

“This was the dawn of a new day, and a new Emma Dove. Never again was she going to sit by while life went…

— Laura Lee Guhrke

“Emma Was Crying. And She Never Cries. I Thought She Was Crying Because She Was Scared. I Was Scared Too. But I Was Wrong.…

— Kaiu Shirai

“In reaching toward Emma, I’d risked everything—was risking it again, every day—but in doing so I had grasped and pulled myself into a world…

— Ransom Riggs

“Once she was born, I was never not afraid.”

— Joan Didion

“...Emma still had a joyless look, and, habitually, at the corners of her mouth, she had that tightness that crumples the faces of old…

— Gustave Flaubert

“I was about to venture into the unknown. But that's what life with Emma had always been. The truth might be more than I…

— Rebecca Donovan

“It’s a shame watching life shrivel up into nothing. Makes you remember to appreciate what you’ve got. Anybody can tell you Ed started breaking…

— John Northcutt Young

“Whatever it was her father wanted, Emma did not know how to provide it. She felt confused by what he did, and imagined the…

— Carol Lee

“I'm scared all the time," she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't," Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Heavens! let me not suppose that she dares go about Emma Woodhouse-ing me! But, upon my honour, there seems no limits to the licentiousness…

— Jane Austen

“Emma says after I was born I cried for days. She said I'd never shut up which is funny really because Dad says I…

— Steven Herrick