Disaster Quote by Francine Pascal

“You know, she used to tear down parts of that house and put them back together herself.”

— Eula Biss

“It was better not to care—Lila tried not to care—but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the cracks, slid…

— V.E. Schwab

“Sometimes he worried that the coat had a mind of its own. The only other person who'd ever managed to find what they wanted…

— V.E. Schwab

“Lila had been the water flowing over the jagged rocks of her anger & fear, smoothing them out with her infinite patience.”

— Vivi Andrews

“By the end, she cleaned the house so much that she had dust in her eyes and her throat, her knees were scrapped a…

— Prerna Varma

“The first thing she noticed when the light popped on was that the wallpaper had rows and rows of tiny lilacs on it, like…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“There was something that charmed her in the fact that her brother, the one true worldling in the whole tribe of Boughtons, seemed to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“He would see her again. He knew he would. Magic bent the world. Pulled it into shape. There were fixed points. Most of the…

— V.E. Schwab

“Lila appeared in my life in first grade and immediately impressed me because she was very bad.”

— Elena Ferrante

“That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“Houses don't clean themselves, she'd mutter. Sometimes she cleaned the bits she had just cleaned. It wasn't like living in a house, but more…

— Rachel Joyce

“She raised her face defiantly, and the sharp shadow line slashed across her neck. For a moment, it looked as though somebody had just…

— Robert Bloch