Family Quote by Ford Madox Ford

“She wasn't a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had planned, she…

— Katherine Catmull

“She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an…

— D H Lawrence

“What had Miss Finch said, all those years ago? That there were no do-overs, no comebacks? That once someone was gone, they were gone…

— Alexandra Bracken

“Her mother had told her the mortal world was pocked with memorials and monuments to loss. They build with steel and stone and promise…

— Leigh Bardugo

“She spoke about her family she'd lost. She spoke about her secret hopes and fears and longings. She had love to give, and no…

— Katherine Applegate

“She had never been out of England before, she would rather die than trust herself friendless in a foreign country, and so forth. She…

— H.G. Wells

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“It was the summer, and Clare Bryant was happy. In the midst of the world which seemed so vast and dangerous to her, so…

— Anna Kavan

“look at the now distant coastline. I knew better, however. Her posture told me that she was not yet willing or ready to talk…

— Karen J. Hasley

“though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?”

— Lorrie Moore

“She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far. The key to contentment was to never…

— Elizabeth Strout

“She honestly could not tell if she loved London or loathed it. For she could not decide for herself what London was at all.”

— Miranda Emmerson