Christopher-moore Quote by Christopher Moore

“Jody had watched other classmates, including many in college prep, enter such a life with an impatient fatalism. They got pregnant or arrested or…

— Ron Rash

“Once this kid came into the world, Sally knew, she would live in constant terror of somehow injuring or losing her. Having her tucked…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“At this Linda gave up. Children might or might not enjoy air-raids actually in progress, but a child who was not thrilled by the…

— Nancy Mitford

“But the very next moment, the boy’s excitement all died away. An unfamiliar pain began in him, of a kind that he had never…

— Neil D'Silva

“Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised…

— Enid Bagnold

“she leaped down the porch steps to her car. There was no thought. No planning. Just action. When you get a call that your…

— Susan Wiggs

“He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be…

— Flannery O'Connor

“She lifted the girl's shirt, showing her ribs and the pointy bumps of her spine. They were like the bones of some animal who'd…

— Amy Goldman Koss

“A half-drowned stranger was more exciting than a bruised and exhausted daughter. She could be dying for all they'd care, she thought angrily, picking…

— Vivien Alcock

“There was something so primal and hungry about the way he stared down at her..the way their bodies unconsciously strained toward one another as…

— Amanda Stevens

“The girl's still unconscious. I'm surprised you didn't kill her.' 'These miniature versions have parents. And parents ask questions.”

— Terrance Dicks

“She felt a lump form in her throat, and she swallowed hard. She wouldn't have this-the swollen ankles and pink cheeks and the feel…

— Sarah Pekkanen