City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“My characters are the family I would have if I could choose them myself.”

— Julie Thomas

“And as he reached for William's leg, the way a small child will reach for its mother's, there welled up through a small hole…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“But the truth was that Laura Ingalls Wilder was the nicest girl I’d ever not known. Rennie would throw me under a bus for…

— Jennifer Gooch Hummer

“We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.”

— Cynthia Rylant

“I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human…

— Karen White

“She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful…

— Louise Penny

“The previous Madison Spencer would bother to hold their frightened hand, to calm and comfort them. Who I am now, however, I tell them…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Was that what Nell had done, too? Forsaken the life and the family she'd been given, to focus instead on the one she'd been…

— Kate Morton

“It was tough… but I came to grips with the fact that her destiny was written before she even met Lynch. He filled a…

— B. Love

“Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts.”

— Melanie Shankle

“For their was no finer family than the one you had chosen yourself.”

— M.A. Kuzniar