Jamison-valley-series Quote by Devney Perry

“Maisy Holt was pure joy. She was goodness personified. She was a beam of sunshine breaking through the clouds in my life.”

— Devney Perry

“I was flustering her – an effect I had on a lot of women – but this was the first time I’d ever enjoyed…

— Devney Perry

“Maisie sensed it first. She wouldn’t stop crying. Since she was a month old, when our mother got sick,”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Riley’s smile saturated her entire face with beauty. This was the sister Maisy had left all those years ago. The sister with the full…

— Patti Callahan Henry

“It seemed to her that while people were very happy, individual persons were surely damned. So, she shrank from that specious mystery the individual…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“The slow turning of his affection wasn’t completed that night, or the next morning, but the beginning of Mack and Maisy’s summer romance began…

— Patti Callahan Henry

“She pulsed, invisibly, like a quasar. I can't describe women, but if you know Duke Pearson's 'After the rain', she was as beautiful and…

— David Mitchell

“Only Anna was sad. She knew that now, from Dolly's departure, no one again would stir up within her soul the feelings that had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Was she happy? I suppose she was happy. She had, after all, fulfilled a dog's most urgent need, she had managed to bestow her…

— Anonymous

“She's an irritating, opinionated woman- a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person deprived,…

— J.D. Salinger

“Her mother used to say a woman's life was suffering, but that was the last thing she wanted for this sweet girl who had…

— Min Jin Lee

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay