Biography Quote by Clare Mulley

“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her…

— Clare Mulley

“She started telling Lyda stories, odd nameless placeless stories, about the man and the woman, myths or memories, perhaps from her own childhood.”

— Julianna Baggott

“She scarcely knew what to think except that she was in the presence of a woman who was as close to legendary as any…

— Josie Litton

“Can you tell me what happened?" Her lips thinned as she shook her head. "'Tis not a happy tale." "You have me reading a…

— Jenny B. Jones

“everything—sound, sight, feeling, certainly understanding. Christine remembered little of that night other than the smear of life and loss pulling her under, sinking her…

— Mary Campisi

“I married the heroine of my stories.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Christine, as a stage character, is just a way for me to be more daring, to be more out of the box, to be…

— Christine and the Queens

“Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed…

— R.J. Anderson

“She knew better. Everyone above the age of three knew the stories of the creature who wore a black battle suit with a jacket…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Really, Agatha, you might have told me.” "Told you what?” Mairelon said. “That my ward was once a street thief? I didn’t think it…

— Patricia C. Wrede

“Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or to anyone…

— Peggy Herring

From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to…

— Charles Frazier