Quote by Frances Hardinge

“We were jigsawed, meant to fit together, making a whole picture.”

— Alix Ohlin

“She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite…

— Terry Pratchett

“It made her question why human beings always appeared to be coming along so nicely as a whole when the bottom would fall out…

— Eve Babitz

“It frightened her to witness these mass ebbs and flows, to work at the cutting face of all that suggestion and manipulation.”

— Catherine O'Flynn

“...she wondered how he had gained such a calmness, a belief that every single piece of the universe fit neatly into another one.”

— Kevin Wilson

“She'd heard theories in her time regarding the number-one enemy of everything, ranging from Osama bin Laden to premarital sex. The dust theory she…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I felt changed and a little crazy. But though I was still like a stained and slightly buckled jigsaw puzzle with some pieces missing,…

— Anne Lamott

“It was like crawling on glass. No matter how firmly she resolved not to think such stupid things, she thought them.”

— Caroline B. Cooney

“There was something else I couldn't quite define--something that made me uneasy. We were a wrong fit, like unmatching puzzle pieces.”

— Heather Anastasiu

“His strong jaw line was clenched tight, and a pair of startingly cool green eyes picked her apart with scientific precision. There was something…

— Frankie Rose

“I told you she had an inconsequent mind. That's putting it much too mildly. When it comes to anything like evidence, she hasn't really…

— Patricia Wentworth

“I’m not going to force some theory on a mystery and make foolishness of it, just because that is what people who talk about…

— Marilynne Robinson