Annamaria Quote by Dean Koontz

“She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to…

— Rett MacPherson

“How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I wish she were alive, but I am grateful for her death. If she were alive, I would likely still be working at the…

— John Hodgman

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old…

— Isabel Allende

“Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to which all…

— Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan

“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened…

— Henry James

“Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and…

— Francesca Block

“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went.…

— Robert Harris

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff

“...she knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding…

— Yiyun Li