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“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the…

— Toni Bentley

“Isabelle had cut off her toes, but sometimes she could still feel them. Maman had cut out her heart. Sometimes, she could still feel…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Isabelle had always thought of her mind as a garden, a magical place to play as a child, when the grown-ups were having conversations…

— Erica Bauermeister

“Every time he thought he knew everything about her, had unwillingly memorized every last detail, something inside her flickered and changed, and he felt…

— Julia Quinn

“They played, laughed, and teased until the moment she slid him inside of her. When his world stopped. Everything he'd ever known. Everything he'd…

— Lauren Stewart

“I had no idea that my world was about to change because of her. Thus it is that major, climactic moments come and pass…

— Bhaskar Ghose

“She’d noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn’t exist is the only escape from the…

— Lisa Wingate

“She feared that she’d missed something, because there were so many parallels with her own story, and she could not help but see in…

— Chris Bohjalian

“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others,”

— Michael Ondaatje

“All her memories have a fragile nature to them. She needed it to be that way to fool herself and everyone else in the…

— Chloe Gong

“Most of all, she went out of her way to provide them with the kinds of experiences that would expand their understanding of what…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“She realized that adventures, once they were over, were things that had to stay inside one--that no one else could quite understand.”

— Eva Ibbotson