Quote by Diane Chamberlain

“Ella was a perfect study in contradictions, and I’d somehow contracted her like a beautiful disease.”

— Laura Marie Altom

“...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off into some…

— Ralph Ellison

“Mary approaches her before she is able to reach her station. "Hello Lily. Get anything special for Christmas?" "Just the usual." She answers. "Shattered…

— Carroll Bryant

“They didn’t say anything. Perhaps Mary felt sweet and good inside, but Laura didn’t. When she looked at Mary she wanted to slap her.…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The next day, Mary walked through the rubble of their destroyed house. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized…

— Marisa Silver

“Either her dream had taken a very odd turn or else - or else Mary had really rushed into the room and had said…

— Agatha Christie

“...everything had changed, and she had crumpled in front of me, and become wholly broken and lost...”

— Susan Hill

“Her life was broken like a mirror and the shards kept cutting her fingers.”

— Ilona Andrews

“But there was a part of her that wondered what would happen if she let them all in on the secretthat some mornings, it…

— Jodi Picoult

“Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the yarn twisted…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Oh my gosh, she'd cracked. Her mother was right. Too much Wonderland and sugar had finally rotter her brain.”

— Marie Hall

“Funny how even knowing it was over the hold she had on me only got harder to break.”

— Stephenie Meyer